Most of the information was gathered while the writer was collecting ethnological specimens for the Heye Museum of New York, now the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, during the years 1907 to 1910; but some of the Canadian data were procured earlier while in the field for Mr E. T. Tefft of New York, whose collection is now in the American Museum of Natural History.

Without knowledge of the Delaware language in its divergent dialects, and without any pretension of being a philologist, the writer has endeavored to record the Lenape words as he heard them, depending for translation on his interpreter pro tem. Hence some inaccuracies at least are inevitable. The alphabet used is as follows:

VOWELSCONSONANTS
a as in arch.c like English sh.
ä as in cat.‛ a slight aspirate.
â as in fall.ⁿ gives the preceding vowel a nasal sound.
ai as in aisle.
e like a in fate.ʷ faintly whispered.
ĕ as in met.L a surd l.
i as in machine.x like German ch.
ĭ as in hit.Other consonants approximately as in English.
o as in note.
u as in flute.
ŭ as in but.
û as in full.

It was intended at first to publish the mass of material thus obtained in the form of a monograph on the ethnology of the Lenape; but later it was seen that while some phases of their culture could be described in considerable detail, there were others not so well represented in our notes. It was therefore finally decided to publish at once such parts as were ready, in the form of separate papers, and to leave the others until more detailed information could be obtained.

No extended comparisons of the religion and ceremonies of the Lenape with those of other tribes will be attempted in this paper, these being reserved for a projected article to embody the results of a comparative study of Lenape culture.

M. R. Harrington

RELIGION AND CEREMONIES OF THE LENAPE

By M. R. Harrington

CHAPTER I
Pantheon