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