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The Peyote cult of the Delaware Indiansarticle 1956 • Newcomb, William W.
Delaware • North America > Eastern Woodlands
In this study the author describes in detail a typical peyote ceremony of the Delaware (Big Moon ceremony), which he and his wife attended in the summer of 1952, and discusses some of the changes which have occurred in the cult since 1930 when Petrul...