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A study of the Delaware Indian Big House CeremonyBook 1931 • Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith) et al.
Delaware • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This source presents an intensive study of the Big House Ceremony, one of the Paramount ceremonies of the Delaware Indians for the fulfillment of obligations to the host of spiritual beings comprising their cosmography. The author, a noted ethnologis...