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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
Contributor:
Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986.
Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840.
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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