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Title: Fish Moon Peyote Song
Identifier(s): audio:9175; APSdigrec_0289; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 14
Source: Roark-Calnek, Sue N. Delaware songs and texts; 1973-1974. (Mss.Rec.106);
Subject: Delaware Indians--Music; Delaware Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Peyote songs
Date: 1973-11-29

Title: Four Morning Water Songs; Comments on Ritual Meaning; Quitting Song
Identifier(s): audio:9169; APSdigrec_0284; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 09
Source: Roark-Calnek, Sue N. Delaware songs and texts; 1973-1974. (Mss.Rec.106);
Subject: Delaware Indians--Music; Delaware Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Peyote songs
Date: 1973-11-29

Title: Comments (English) on Mesingw ("False Face") Spirit and Impersonation; Narration (Delaware) of Origin of Mesingw
Identifier(s): audio:9184; APSdigrec_0303; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 02
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: Big House Ceremony (Delaware rite); Delaware Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1973-11-29

Title: Fish Moon Peyote Song
Identifier(s): audio:9161; APSdigrec_0288; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 13
Source: Roark-Calnek, Sue N. Delaware songs and texts; 1973-1974. (Mss.Rec.106);
Subject: Delaware Indians--Music; Delaware Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Peyote songs
Date: 1973-11-29

Title: Prayer Appropriate for Invocation at a Performance
Identifier(s): audio:9196; APSdigrec_0309; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 03
Description: Explanatory comments in English followed by a Christian prayer in Delaware.
Source: Roark-Calnek, Sue N. Delaware songs and texts; 1973-1974. (Mss.Rec.106);
Subject: Delaware language; Prayers; Delaware Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Invocation
Date: 1973-12-16

Title: Fish Moon Peyote Song
Identifier(s): audio:9156; APSdigrec_0286; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 11
Source: Roark-Calnek, Sue N. Delaware songs and texts; 1973-1974. (Mss.Rec.106);
Subject: Delaware Indians--Music; Delaware Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Peyote songs
Date: 1973-11-29

Title: Pleasure Dance #1
Identifier(s): APSdigrec_0417; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 01
Description: Women's stomp dance. May be a women's side dance in which women dance while men sing. Possibly a Shawnee song sung in Delaware.; Playback speed uneven due to condition of the original cylinder.
Subject: Delaware Indians--Music; Delaware dance; Stomp dance; Shawnee Indians--Music
Date: 1928

Title: Woman's Dance Song, ywietani-ke, "dancing nicely"
Identifier(s): APSdigrec_2807; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 09
Description: Women's stomp dance song. Words possibly in Seneca. Song may be of Shawnee origin.
Subject: Delaware Indians--Music; Delaware dance; Stomp dance; Shawnee Indians--Music
Date: 1928

Title: Delaware Dance Songs (not used in Big House): c: Women's Dance
Identifier(s): APSdigrec_2816; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 05
Description: Identified by Goddard (see Related Resource) as a Raccoon Dance, possibly Shawnee in origin.
Subject: Delaware Indians--Music; Delaware dance; Stomp dance; Shawnee Indians--Music
Date: 1928

Title: Pleasure Dance #2
Identifier(s): APSdigrec_0418; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 02
Description: Women's stomp dance. May be a women's side dance in which women dance while men sing. Possibly a Seneca song sung in Delaware.; Playback speed uneven due to condition of the original cylinder.
Subject: Delaware Indians--Music; Delaware dance; Stomp dance; Seneca Indians--Music
Date: 1928

Title: III(8C3a) - Canadian (Grand River, Ont.) Delaware -- a. Letters from Jesse Moses, Jr.
Identifier(s): text:264233
Description: Letters: April 7, 1934, 1p., concerning obtaining data; Oct. 5, 1940, 4p., concerning reservation activities; Dec. 11, 1941, 4p., reservation affairs; Nov. 23, 1942, (typed copy?), 1p., concerning Speck (1942) and Indian affairs; Nov. 13, 1944, 5p., wrongs to Indians and miscellaneous; Nov. 29, 1944, 4p., concerning Lenni Lenape and data Moses is gathering; Dec. 3, 1944, 8p., same subject; Dec. 7, 1944, 4p., (typed), Story of Nick (Peters?) and white captives; Sept. 7, 1945, 3p., concerning Delaware affairs, speculations on Delaware religion, concept of Great Spirit and conversion to Christianity; Aug. 4, 1947, 4p., miscellaneous Cayuga and Delaware affairs; Nov. 31, 1945, 6p., sends treaty of 1777 of British and Indians at Detroit, discusses manufacture of museum specimens; Sept. 7, 1948, 3p., miscellaneous, discusses meeting with Mormon missionaries; ca. 19431944, 1p., fragment of letter. Speck field notes taken from Jesse Moses, 1944, 3p. Images note: 7 photographs of old and young Jesse Moses.
Creator: Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950et al; Moses, Jesse, Jr.et al
Subject: Delaware Indians; Ontario (Province)--History
Date: 1932-1948

Title: 2-38-w: Witapanóxwe
Identifier(s): graphics:4173; local: APSimg6797
Description: Black and white photograph of Witapanóxwe, "Walks with Daylight", also known as James Webber, in native attire with head-dress, displaying baskets and objects from multiple tribes while Frank G. Speck takes notes.; Image (2-38-w); Freeman guide #4759a.; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950et al
Subject: Native American Images; Delaware Indians
Date: circa 1920s

Title: Munsee lexicon
Identifier(s): text:159703
Description: Brief word and phrase list in the Munsee (Delaware) language, recorded by Frank Siebert from Nichodemus (Nick) Peters at Ohsweken, Ontario in 1938.
Creator: Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998et al
Subject: Munsee Indians; Delaware Indians--Canada
Date: 1938

Title: III(8C3e) - Canadian (Grand River, Ont.) Delaware -- e. Notes on life and geneology of Joseph Montour
Identifier(s): text:264313
Description: Includes chart of succession of chiefs, 1855-1937; data from Joseph Montour (biographical). 3p. biography of Nicodemus Peters (1859-1938).
Creator: Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950et al
Subject: Delaware Indians; Ontario (Province)--History
Date: 1932

Title: 4-19-a: Delaware village
Identifier(s): graphics:4166; local: APSimg6801
Description: Color oil painting of Delaware Indian dwellings on hillside.; On cardboard, 6 x 9 inches. Image (4-19-a); Freeman guide #4612a.; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950et al
Subject: Native American Images; Delaware Indians
Date: 1910-1945

Title: Delaware Peyote Song
Identifier(s): APSdigrec_0421; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 05
Subject: Delaware Indians--Music; Peyote songs
Date: 1928

Title: Comments on Ghost Dance; Ghost Dance Song
Identifier(s): audio:9168; APSdigrec_0281; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 06
Source: Roark-Calnek, Sue N. Delaware songs and texts; 1973-1974. (Mss.Rec.106);
Subject: Delaware Indians--Music; Delaware Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Delaware dance; Ghost dance
Date: 1973-11-29

Title: Comments on Cherokee Dance Songs; Cherokee Dance Song
Identifier(s): audio:9165; APSdigrec_0280; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 05
Source: Roark-Calnek, Sue N. Delaware songs and texts; 1973-1974. (Mss.Rec.106);
Subject: Delaware Indians--Music; Delaware Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Delaware Indians--Music; Cherokee dance
Date: 1973-11-29

Title: Fragment of Big House vision recital, with song
Identifier(s): audio:4153; APSdigrec_0422; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 06
Description: Program contains significant, sometimes loud sound distortions and skipping 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

Title: George Washington's Vision and Song; Translation of Song; George Falleaf's Song
Identifier(s): audio:9164; APSdigrec_0297; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 22
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