Walam olum : or, Red score, the migration legend of the Lenni Lenape or Delaware Indians | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)
Genre:Texts
Physical Description:xiv, 379 pages : color portraits, color maps, facsimiles ; 29 cm
OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1633009
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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
Notes:
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
Believed by various scholars, including David Oestreicher, Herbert Kraft, and Jennifer M. Lehmann, to be a literary hoax fabricated by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque in the 1830s. See Oestreicher, D. "The European Roots of the Walam Olum," in New Perspectives on the Origins of American Archaeology, ed. Stephen Williams and David Browman. The University of Alabama Press, 2002