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Notes, amendments, and additions to Heckewelder's account of the Indians

Culture:
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Language:English
Date:1820
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Vaughn, John, 1756-1841
Subject:Childbirth | Ethnography | Marriage customs and rites | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Corrections
Extent:1 volume
Description: Six editorial corrections to Heckewelder's Account...(1819), with page references, "in case a new edition ever is made." Concerns religion, warfare, marriage and family life, childbirth, swimming, and fears. Never printed. Prepared. for John Vaughan; should be compared with Heckewelder's suggestions in his correspondence with Du Ponceau.
Collection:Notes, amendments, and additions to Heckewelder's account of the Indians (Mss.970.1.H35n)

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