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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.
Penn Museum Library PM1034 .W3 1954
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- Format:
- Microformat
- Standardized Title:
- Wallam olum.
- Language:
- Delaware
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wallam olum.
- Delaware language--Texts.
- Delaware language.
- Delaware Indians.
- Genre:
- Texts.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 379 pages : color portraits, color maps (on lining papers), facsimiles ; 29 cm
- 35 mm
- monochrome
- printing master
- negative
- Place of Publication:
- Indianapolis : Indiana Historical Society, 1954.
- 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 P. Weer.
- Notes:
- Includes facsim, reproduction of the Rafinesque ms. of the Walam olum in the Brinton Memorial Library in the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Master microform held by: UnM.
- Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms International, [19--]. 1 reel. 35 mm.
- OCLC:
- 22724437
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