| Title | Walam olum; or, Red score, the migration legend of the Lenni Lenape or Delaware Indians. A new translation, interpreted by linguistic, historical, archaeological, ethnological, and physical anthropological studies.
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| Published | Indianapolis, Indiana Historical Society, 1954.
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| Description | xiv, 379 p. col. ports., col. maps, facsims. 29 cm.
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| General Note | Maps on lining papers.
Includes facsim, reproduction of the Rafinesque ms. of the Walam olum in the Brinton Memorial Library in the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.
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| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographies.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: Introduction.--Walam olum: Pictographs and Lenape text, after C. Rafinesque. Translation, by C.F. Voegelin. Interpretation of the pictographs, by E. Lilly. Ethnological observations, by E. Voegelin.--Validity of translations of the Walam olum, by C.F. Voegelin and J.E. Pierce.--Pictograph concordance with bibliography, by E. Lilly.--History of the Walam olum manuscript and painted records, by P. Weer.--Speculations on the chronology of the Walam olum and migration of the Lenape, by E. Lilly.--Parallels to the Delaware Walam olum, by E.W. Voegelin.--An archaeological consideration of the Walam olum, by G.A. Black.--The Walam olum in light of physical anthropological data on the Lenape, by G.K. Neumann.--Additional Walam olum references, compiled by F. Weer.
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| Subjects | Delaware Indians.
Delaware language -- Texts.
Walam olum.
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| Other Authors | Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906- tr.
Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840.
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| LC Card Number | 54-4884 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: E 99 D343 W3
mq87273: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 50811] |
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