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Title: Delaware #2
Identifier(s): text:255907
Description: Typewritten and handwritten vocabulary, grammatical notes, and some texts in Delaware.
Subject: Delaware language
Date: circa 1930s

Title: Delaware #1
Identifier(s): text:255813
Description: Typewritten and handwritten vocabulary, grammatical notes, and some texts in Delaware.
Subject: Delaware language
Date: 1937-1939

Title: 17. Vocabulary of the Delaware Indians
Identifier(s): text:159518
Description: Submitted on Jefferson's printed vocabulary form. Recorded from unnamed Lenape speakers at Edgpiiluk, New Jersey. Donated by Thomas Jefferson in 1817.
Creator: Madison, James, 1751-1836et al; Unidentifiedet al
Subject: Delaware language
Date: December 1792

Title: 37: A vocabulary of the language of the Delawares of New Sweden, translated by Peter S. Du Ponceau
Identifier(s): text:320336
Description: Translated by Peter S. DuPonceau from the Swedish; a standard list used by DuPonceau, semantically ordered. Taken from Campanius Holm's Catechism (1696).
Creator: Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844et al; Campanius Holm, Tomas, approximately 1670-1702et al
Subject: Delaware language
Date: undated

Title: Delaware Vocabulary: Fred Washington [2 of 2]
Identifier(s): audio:9189; APSdigrec_0306; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 02
Description: Consists of unelicited lexical items and expressions in Delaware with English gloss and some accompanying ethnographic information, mainly on plant use. The unordered lexical material consists primarily of substantives: terms for plants, animals, birds, weather phenomena, kin statuses, descent groups, ceremonial and secular dance regalia.
Source: Roark-Calnek, Sue N. Delaware songs and texts; 1973-1974. (Mss.Rec.106);
Subject: Delaware language; anthropological_linguistics
Date: 1974-06-24

Title: Delaware Vocabulary: Fred Washington [1 of 2]
Identifier(s): audio:9190; APSdigrec_0305; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 01
Description: Consists of unelicited lexical items and expressions in Delaware with English gloss and some accompanying ethnographic information, mainly on plant use. The unordered lexical material consists primarily of substantives: terms for plants, animals, birds, weather phenomena, kin statuses, descent groups, ceremonial and secular dance regalia.
Source: Roark-Calnek, Sue N. Delaware songs and texts; 1973-1974. (Mss.Rec.106);
Subject: Delaware language; anthropological_linguistics
Date: 1974-06-24

Title: Prayer for Well-Being
Identifier(s): audio:9195; APSdigrec_0307; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 01
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
Date: 1973-12-16

Title: 35. Walter Bromley to Thomas Wistar, April 26, 1819
Identifier(s): text:310686
Description: Copy prepared and certified by Wistar and DuPonceau from original transmitting his "A few specimens of the verbs of the Micmac..." Has received Historical and Literary Committee Transactions; discusses DuPonceau and Heckewelder on language; an amateur attempt to use European-Latin grammatical categories in comparing Delaware and Mi'kmaq.
Creator: Bromley, Walter, 1775?-1838et al
Subject: Delaware language; Micmac language
Date: 1819-04-26

Title: Prayer for Well-Being
Identifier(s): audio:9197; APSdigrec_0308; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 02
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
Date: 1973-12-16

Title: Monographia plantarum Lancastriensis, 1792
Identifier(s): text:288195
Description: 1 Volumes; 1 volume. Bound with No. 19 is "Samlungen von dem was ich aus dem Thierreich habe bemerken können," 1 vol. This contains Muhlenberg's observations of animals, birds, and insects in and near Lancaster; and also a list of the native animals of Vermont. Abstract: Descriptions of trees, shrubs, and plants, including local names in German, English, and Indian languages. Volume 2; volume 1 (#20) in German. Old call number 580 M89m.
Subject: Muhlenberg, Henry, 1753-1815; Natural history; Delaware language
Date: 1792

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: 21, 22b: Comparative vocabulary of the Delaware, Minsi, Mohicon, Natick, Chippeway, Shawanoe [i.e. Miami], and Nanticoke languages
Identifier(s): text:310673
Creator: Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823et al
Subject: Delaware language; Mohegan language; Wampanoag language; Ojibwe language; Miami language; Shawnee language
Date: undated

Title: Walam Olum
Identifier(s): graphics:2683; APSimg7028
Description: Ink sketch of Delaware Indian pictographs with English translations, simple signs found in the Linapi (sic) Wallamolum.; Writings II, 1830-1840. Graphic Systems of North America.; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Rafinesque, C.S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840
Source: C.S. (Constantine Samuel) Rafinesque correspondence and writings (Mss.B.R124); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.R124-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Indians of North America; Delaware Indians; Delaware language--Writing; Wallam olum
Date: 1833

Title: 22, 22a: Comparative vocabulary of the Lenni Lenape, Mahicanni, Nanticoke, Shawano, Natick, Chippuwa and Algonquin languages
Identifier(s): text:310674
Description: Numerals; kinship terms. "Shawano" may be Shawnee or Miami langauge. Specific kind of Anishinaabemowin indicated by "Chippuwa" is undetermined. Specific kind of Algonquian language indicated by "Algonkin" also undetermined.
Creator: Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823et al
Subject: Delaware language; Mohegan language; Nanticoke language; Shawnee language; Wampanoag language; Algonquian languages
Date: undated

Title: Walam Olum
Identifier(s): graphics:2684; APSimg7027
Description: Ink sketch of Delaware Indian pictographs with English translations, simple signs found in the Linapi (sic) Wallamolum.; Writings II, 1830-1840. Graphic Systems of North America.; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Rafinesque, C.S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840
Source: C.S. (Constantine Samuel) Rafinesque correspondence and writings (Mss.B.R124); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.R124-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Indians of North America; Delaware Indians; Delaware language--Writing; Wallam olum
Date: 1833

Title: Notes on Seneca, Mohawk, Delaware, Tutelo, Abenaki, Malecite, Micmac, Montagnais, and Cree [and Algonquin]
Identifier(s): text:245171
Description: Field notebook kept by Edward Sapir while surveying languages in several languages in Ontario and Quebec. All sections consist of recorded words and phrases unless otherwise noted: Chief Gibson, Seneca, at Six Nations of the Grand River, giving 1 page story, then list of names Haudenosaunee chief positions in Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk; Seth Newhouse, at Six Nations, giving Mohawk clan names; Nelson Moses, Delaware Unami speaker, at Smoothtown; Andrew Spragg, Tutelo speaker, at Six Nations; Mrs. M. Martin, Mohawk speaker, at Kahnawake ("Caughnawaga"); Mrs. Obamsawin, Abenaki speaker, at Pierreville, Quebec; Thomas Paul, Maliseet ("Malecite") speaker at Riviere du Loup; Mrs. Thomas, Mi'kmaq ("Micmac") speaker, at Cacouna; Maggie Robertson, East Cree speaker from Waskaganish ("Rupert House"), at Pointe Bleue; Louis Clairie, Innu-Aimun ("Montagnais") speaker, at Pointe Bleue; Chief Michel Comanda, Algonquin speaker, from (and perhaps at) Maniwaki.; Item I1.2
Subject: Mohawk language; Seneca language; Cayuga language; Onondaga language; Oneida language; Delaware language; Unami language; Tutelo language; Abenaki language; Maliseet-Passamaquoddy language; Micmac language; Cree language; Montagnais language; Algonquin language
Date: 1911-1912

Title: Comparative vocabularies of several Indian languages
Identifier(s): text:156345
Description: Comparative vocabulary of 22 Native American languages, based on Jefferson's collection of vocabularies on printed forms. This document was damaged in transit from the White House to Monticello in 1809 (see letters of Jefferson to Peter S. Du Ponceau, November 7, 1817, and April 26, 1816.)
Creator: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Source: Comparative vocabularies of several Indian languages, 1802-1808 (Mss.497.J35); http://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.J35-ead.xml
Subject: Indians of North America--Languages; Atacapas language; Cayuga language; Cherokee language; Chickasaw language; Chitimacha language; Choctaw language; Cree language; Creek language; Delaware language; Mahican language; Miami language (Ind. and Okla.); Munsee language; Nanticoke language; Oneida language; Onondaga language; Ottawa language; Shawnee language; Tuscarora language; Unami jargon; Unquachog language
Date: 1802-1808