Object Details
Scope and Contents
"Me-Zeengk is the name of this God"- Information printed on plate.
sova.naa.photolot.176_ref8828
Local Numbers
OPPS NEG.742592
Local Note
"Obliterated legend at left reads: "A Muncey Idol/ Delivered up by Jos. Nicholas on his conversion to Christianity." The mask on the right was collected by M. R. Harrington and is now in the American Museum of Natural History (see Harrington, Vestiges of Material Culture among the Candian Delawares, American Anthropologist n. s. 10 (3); 408-418; 1908--417 and Plate 26a; Religion and Ceremonies of the Lenape, Indian Notes and Monographs [volume 19], Museum of the American Indian, N. W., 1921, Plate 3b). --Information from W. C. Sturtevant
Black and white copy negative
Topic
Language and languages -- Documentation
Lenape
Delaware (Lenape)
Indians of North America -- Northeast
Culture
Delaware -- Munsee
Munsee Delaware
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Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / ANONYMOUS
Extent
1 Photograph (8x10 in)
Archival Repository
National Anthropological Archives
Type
Archival materials
Photographs
Genre/Form
Photographs
NAA.PhotoLot.176_ref8828
Large EAD
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3730d3429-5374-4882-8f85-efd259e004c0
NAA.PhotoLot.176
NAA
Record ID
ebl-1628267668517-1628267670656-4