Shawano personal names are nearly all clan names, and by their interpretation the clan to which the individual or his father or mother belongs may be discovered. Thus, when a man is called “tight fitting” or “good fit,” he is of the _Rabbit_ clan, because the fur fits the rabbit very tightly and closely. The name of Tecumtha is derived from _nila ni tka′mthka_, “I cross the path or way of somebody, or of an animal.” This indicates that the one so named belongs to the clan of the round-foot or claw-foot animals, as panther, lion, or even raccoon. Tecumtha and his brother belonged to the clan of the manetuwi msipessi or “miraculous panther” (_msi_, great, big; _pishiwi_, abbreviated _pessi_, cat, both combined meaning the American lion). So the translations “panther lying in wait,” or “crouching lion,” give only the sense of the name, and no animal is named in it. But the _msi-pessi_, when the epithet miraculous (_manetuwi_) is added to it, means a “celestial tiger,” i. e., a meteor or shooting star. The _manetuwi msi-pessi_ lives in water only and is visible not as an animal, but as a shooting star, and exceeding in size other shooting stars. This monster gave name to a Shawano clan, and this clan, to which Tecumtha belonged, was classed among the claw-foot animals also. The quick motion of the shooting star was correctly likened to that of a tiger or wildcat rushing upon his prey. Shooting stars are supposed to be souls of great men all over America. The home of the dead is always in the west, where the celestial bodies set, and since meteors travel westward they were supposed to return to their western home. [Illustration: +Fig. 58+—Tecumtha. One of the finest looking men I ever saw—about 6 feet high, straight, with large, fine features, and altogether a daring, bold-looking fellow.—_Captain Floyd, 1810._ One of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally to produce revolutions and overturn the established order of things—_Governor Harrison._] EXPLANATION OF FIGURE 58