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Title: Comments on Stomp Dance; Series of four Woman Dance Songs
Identifier(s): audio:9158; APSdigrec_0277; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 02
Source: Roark-Calnek, Sue N. Delaware songs and texts; 1973-1974. (Mss.Rec.106);
Subject: Delaware Indians--Music; Delaware Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Stomp dance; Delaware dance
Date: 1973-11-29

Title: Comments on Big House Ceremony; Ben Hill's Big House Vision Recitation Song
Identifier(s): audio:9167; APSdigrec_0294; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 19
Description: This recording has been identified as culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: Roark-Calnek, Sue N. Delaware songs and texts; 1973-1974. (Mss.Rec.106);
Subject: Delaware Indians--Music; Delaware Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Big House Ceremony (Delaware rite)
Date: 1973-11-29

Title: Frank Wilson's Song, with Translation
Identifier(s): audio:9172; APSdigrec_0296; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 21
Description: This recording has been identified as culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: Roark-Calnek, Sue N. Delaware songs and texts; 1973-1974. (Mss.Rec.106);
Subject: Delaware Indians--Music; Delaware Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Big House Ceremony (Delaware rite)
Date: 1973-11-29

Title: Delaware Song A - song to go with Big House Ceremony, Song of Leader (Elkhair) as he opens the Ceremony the First Day
Identifier(s): audio:4169; APSdigrec_2818; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 07
Description: Identified by Goddard (see Related Resource) as "Charley Elkhair's Big House vision recital and song"; Program contains severe background noise due to poor condition of original cylinder. This recording has been identified as culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: Speck, Frank G. Delaware Indian material, 1928. (Mss.Rec.4);
Subject: Delaware Indians--Music; Delaware Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Big House Ceremony (Delaware rite); Peyote songs
Date: 1928-03-10

Title: Witapano'xwe's Big House vision recital and song
Identifier(s): audio:4156; APSdigrec_2813; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 02
Description: Big House ceremony vision recital and song of James C. Webber, whose Delaware name is Witapano'xwe.; This recording has been identified as culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: Speck, Frank G. Delaware Indian material, 1928. (Mss.Rec.4);
Subject: Delaware Indians--Music; Delaware Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Big House Ceremony (Delaware rite); Peyote songs
Date: 1928

Title: Comments on Vision Recitation; Charley Elkhair's Big House Vision Recitation Song; Translation of song
Identifier(s): audio:9176; APSdigrec_0295; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 20
Description: This recording has been identified as culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: Roark-Calnek, Sue N. Delaware songs and texts; 1973-1974. (Mss.Rec.106);
Subject: Delaware Indians--Music; Delaware Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Big House Ceremony (Delaware rite)
Date: 1973-11-29

Title: Witapano'xwe's Big House vision recital and song
Identifier(s): audio:4160; APSdigrec_2814; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 03
Description: Big House ceremony vision recital and song of James C. Webber, whose Delaware name is Witapano'xwe.; This recording has been identified as culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: Speck, Frank G. Delaware Indian material, 1928. (Mss.Rec.4);
Subject: Delaware Indians--Music; Delaware Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Big House Ceremony (Delaware rite); Peyote songs
Date: 1928

Title: A Chart of Delaware Bay and River, 1776
Identifier(s): graphics:10289
Description: Miller Map 18.
Subject: Maps; Drury, Andrew; Fisher, Joshua, 1707-1783; Delaware Bay (Del. and N.J.); Delaware Bay Watershed (Del. and N.J.); Delaware River
Date: 1776

Title: 2-39-n: Frank Speck and Josiah Montour
Identifier(s): graphics:9522
Description: Black-and-white photo of Frank Speck with Josiah Montour, at home of Jesse Moses Jr. in Smoothtown, Six Nations, Ontario.; Image: 2-39-n
Creator: Speck, Frank Gouldsmith, 1881-1950et al
Subject: Delaware Indians; Indians of North America--Ontario
Date: 1945

Title: Correspondence with Frank Speck
Identifier(s): text:165936
Description: Primarily concerns Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) matters, especially wampum, including specific items. Includes some letters to Speck from Glenn Black of the Indiana Historical Society, Kenneth Kidd of the Royal Ontario Museum, Alexander General ("Deskaheh"), Fred Washington of "Lenape Nation" in Oklahoma; copies of class handouts from an Anthropology course taught by Speck in 1927. Includes briefer mentions of Cochiti and Penobscot. Related correspondences in this collection include Alex General and Helen Harris.
Creator: Speck, Frank Gouldsmith, 1881-1950; Kidd, Kenneth; General, Alexander; Washington, Fred; Black, Glenn A. (Glenn Albert), 1900-1964
Source: George S. Snyderman Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.51); https://search.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.Ms.Coll.51-ead.xml
Subject: Haudenosaunee; Iroquois Indians; Delaware Indians; Wampum
Date: 1914, 1927, 1939-1950

Title: Pennsylvania Provincial Council Minutes, May 19, 1712
Identifier(s): text:159539
Description: On May 19, 1712, Delaware (Lenape) chief Sassoonan and 12 members of his nation carried 32 wampum belts to a meeting with the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy). They stopped in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and showed the belts to the British colony’s Provincial Council, which recorded each belt’s design and meaning.
Subject: Delaware Indians; Iroquois Indians; Wampum; Haudenosaunee
Date: 1712-05-19

Title: The History of the Shawnee and Lenape [2 of 2]
Identifier(s): audio:20357; APSdigrec_7725; Recording Number: 2B5.1; Program Number: 02
Description: Recorded as one of five breakout sessions during Session 2B, "Viewing the APS Archives through Indigenous Eyes" of the "Building Partnerships Between Archives and Indian Communities" conference held at the American Philosophical Society, May 19-21, 2010.
Source: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group VII.11. (APS.Archives.VII.11); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives-ead.xml
Subject: Delaware Indians--History; Shawnee Indians--History
Date: 2010-05-20

Title: Passport for Joseph Peepy and Lewis Montour (friendly Indians)
Identifier(s): text:160612
Subject: Denny, William , 1709-1765; Delaware Indians
Date: 1757-01-09

Title: Deerskin jacket, front view
Identifier(s): graphics:1752; local: APSimg7956
Description: Black and white photograph of man wearing native attire, deerskin jacket with cuffs, small fringe, embroidery, Moravian Historical Society, Nazareth, Pennsylvania.; Folder: Moravian Historical Society-Indian costumes; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Wallace, Paul A.W.et al
Subject: Native American Images; Pennsylvania; Delaware Indians
Date: 1955

Title: Deerskin jacket, back view, fringe
Identifier(s): graphics:1756; local: APSimg7958
Description: Black and white photograph of man wearing native attire, cape-like deerskin jacket with collar, long fringe, Moravian Historical Society, Nazareth, Pennsylvania.; Folder: Moravian Historical Society-Indian costumes; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Wallace, Paul A.W.et al
Subject: Native American Images; Pennsylvania; Delaware Indians
Date: 1955

Title: III(5E1a) Miscellaneous Ottawa notes
Identifier(s): text:298358
Description: Miscellaneous data concerning Ottawa plant names and dances and Fred Ettawageshik. Letter of Ene (?), Denver Art Museum, Department of Indian Art, to Speck, Dec. 7, 1939, concerning Delaware specimens. On reverse are Speck's notes on Delaware locations, according to eighteenth-century maps.
Creator: Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950et al; Ettawageshik, Fred, 1896-1969et al
Subject: Ottawa language; Ottawa Indians; Delaware Indians
Date: 1939

Title: Deerskin jacket, front view, fringe
Identifier(s): graphics:1765; local: APSimg7959
Description: Black and white photograph of man wearing native attire, cape-like deerskin jacket with long fringe, Moravian Historical Society, Nazareth, Pennsylvania.; Folder: Moravian Historical Society-Indian costumes; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Wallace, Paul A.W.et al
Subject: Native American Images; Pennsylvania; Delaware Indians
Date: 1955

Title: The History of the Shawnee and Lenape [1 of 2]
Identifier(s): audio:20356; APSdigrec_7724; Recording Number: 2B5.1; Program Number: 01
Description: Recorded as one of five breakout sessions during Session 2B, "Viewing the APS Archives through Indigenous Eyes" of the "Building Partnerships Between Archives and Indian Communities" conference held at the American Philosophical Society, May 19-21, 2010.
Source: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group VII.11. (APS.Archives.VII.11); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives-ead.xml
Subject: Delaware Indians--History; Shawnee Indians--History
Date: 2010-05-20

Title: Deerskin jacket, back view
Identifier(s): graphics:1768; local: APSimg7955
Description: Black and white photograph of man wearing native attire, deerskin jacket with collar, small fringe, embroidery, Moravian Historical Society, Nazareth, Pennsylvania.; Folder: Moravian Historical Society-Indian costumes; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Wallace, Paul A.W.et al
Subject: Native American Images; Pennsylvania; Delaware Indians
Date: 1955

Title: Deerskin jacket, side view
Identifier(s): graphics:1760; local: APSimg7957
Description: Black and white photograph of man wearing native attire, deerskin jacket with collar, cuffs, small fringe, embroidery, Moravian Historical Society, Nazareth, Pennsylvania.; Folder: Moravian Historical Society-Indian costumes; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Wallace, Paul A.W.et al
Subject: Native American Images; Pennsylvania; Delaware Indians
Date: 1955