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Old religion among the Delawares: the Gamwing (Big House rite)
Ethnohistory : the bulletin of the Ohio Valley Historic Indian Conference • 44 (1) • Published In 1997 • Pages: 113-134
By: Miller, Jay.
Abstract
This article is a rebuttal to Anthony F.C. Wallace's argument that the Big House (Gamwing) ceremony of the Delaware was an 1805 'new religion' among these people. A '… review of his sources, native testimony, and continuing cultural import suggests instead that it was their ancient integrative ritual, held to mark the conjunction of men and women, hunt and crops, and Creator and creation as a world renewal ceremony of universal thanksgiving' (p. 113).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2003
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle; 2002
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- seventeenth-nineteenth centuries
- Coverage Place
- not specified
- Notes
- Jay Miller
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-134)
- LCCN
- 57043343
- LCSH
- Delaware Indians