Lenape materials, Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection
Culture:
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Language: English
Date: 1795-1796
Contributor: Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Subject: Earthquakes | Folklore | Birds | Natural history | Animals--Folklore
Type: Text
Genre: Correspondence
Extent: 2 items
Description: Correspondence relating to Delawares. Two letters to John G. E. Heckewelder. The first inquires whether words for "earthquake" exist in Delaware or other Indian languages and whether there is an "earthquake theme." The second concerns whether certain objects are unequivocally Indian, and whether any species of birds is venerated or held in particular esteem by the Delawares or other Indians. [Both from originals in the Gilbert Collection, College of Physicians, Philadelphia.]
Collection: Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection Mss.B.B284d