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Physical Anthropology of the Lenape or Dela- wares, and of the Eastern Indians in Gen- eral. By Ales Hrdlicka. (Bur. of Amer. Ethnol., Bull. 62, 1916, with added title-page and cover.) $1 .00.
Vol.4
No. 1 : The Technique of Porcupine-Quill Dec- oration among the North American Indians. By William C. Orchard. 1916. $1.00.
No. 2: Certain Archeological Investigations in Trinidad, British West Indies. By Theo- door de Booy. Reprinted from Amer. An- thropol., Vol. 19, 1917, No. 4. 50c.
No. 3: The Nacoochee Mound in Georgia. By George G. Heye, F. W. Hodge, and George H. Pepper. 1918. $1.50.
Vol.5
No. 1 : A Letter of Pedro de Alvarado Relating to his Expedition to Ecuador [1534]. By Marshall H. Saville. 1917. 50c.
No. 2: The Diegueno Ceremony of the Death- Images. By E.H.Davis. 1919. 50c.
No. 3: Certain Mounds in Haywood County, North Carolina, By George G. Heye. Re- printed from Holmes Anniversary Volume, 1916. 1919. 50c.
No. 4: Exploration of Aboriginal Sites at Throgs Neck and Clasons Point, New York City. By Alanson Skinner. 1919. $1.00.
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INDIAN NOTES AND MONOGRAPHS
A SERIES OF PUBLICA- TIONS RELATING TO THE AMERICAN ABORIGINES
TWO LENAPE STONE MASKS
FROM PENNSYLVANIA
AND NEW JERSEY
BY
ALANSON SKINNER
NEW YORK
MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN
HEYE FOUNDATION
1920
Publications of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
THE GEORGE G. HEYE EXPEDITION CONTRIBUTIONS TO SOUTH AMER- ICAN ARCHAEOLOGY
Vol.1
The Antiquities of Manabi, Ecuador: A Pre- liminary Report. By Marshall H. Saville. 1907. $25.00.
Vol.2
The Antiquities of Manabi, Ecuador: Final Report. By Marshall H. Saville. 1910. $25.00.
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Vol. 1
No. 1: Lucayan Artifacts from the Bahamas. By Theodoor de Booy. Reprinted from Amer. Anthropol., Vol. 15, 1913, No. 1. 50c.
No. 2: Precolumbian Decoration of the Teeth in Ecuador, with some Account of the Oc- currence of the Custom in other parts of North and South America. By Marshall H. Saville. Reprinted from Amer. Anthropol., Vol. 15, 1913, No. 3. 50c.
No. 3: Certain Kitchen-middens in Jamaica. By Theodoor de Booy. Reprinted from Amer. Anthropol., Vol. 15, 1913, No. 3. (Re- printed, 1919.) 50c.
No. 4: Porto Rican Elbow-stones in the Heye Museum, with discussion of similar objects elsewhere. By J. Walter Fewkes. Reprinted from Amer Anthropol., Vol. 15, 1913, No. 3. 50c.
INDIAN NOTES AND MONOGRAPHS
A SERIES OF PUBLICA- TIONS RELATING TO THE AMERICAN ABORIGINES
TWO LENAPE STONE MASKS
FROM PENNSYLVANIA
AND NEW JERSEY
BY
ALANSON SKINNER
NEW YORK
MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN HEYE FOUNDATION
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THIS series of INDIAN NOTES AND MONO- GRAPHS is devoted primarily to the publica- tion of the results of studies by members of the staff of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, and is uniform with HISPANIC NOTES AND MONOGRAPHS, published by the Hispanic Society of America, with which organization this Museum is in cordial cooperation.
TWO LENAPE STONE MASKS FROM
PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY
BY
ALANSON SKINNER
SKINNER— LENAPE MASK
LENAPE STONE MASK FROM PENNSYLVANIA
TWO LENAPE STONE MASKS
FROM PENNSYLVANIA
AND NEW JERSEY
BY ALANSON SKINNER
TjHE mask shown in pi. I, with its r I grimacing face and protruding
tongue, was washed out by a freshet on the site of the Lenape or Delaware Indian village of Wyalusing, ; on the Susquehanna, a settlement destroyed : by Continental soldiers under Colonel Hart- ley in 1778, because it had been a rallying place for Indian hostiles and Tories.
The face of the mask shows evidence of having been made with the aid of both stone and metallic tools, and its lolling tongue is further evidence of its historic origin, since this feature is in imitation of a familiar type of the well-known Iroquois false-face.
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While the exact use to which this object has been put is in doubt, it is known that the modern Lenape Indians still possess wooden dolls which they style "guardians of health" and to which annual sacrifices are made to insure the welfare of the tribe They also believe in a being called "The Living Solid Face," who controls the beasts of the forest and governs the chase. In the annual ceremony this personage is repre jsented by a shaman wearing a heavy I wooden mask. No doubt this object from Wyalusing represents one or the other of these deities, specimens of both of which are to be seen in the Museum of the Ameri can Indian, Heye Foundation.
Only a few Lenape masks or heads of stone are known. The finest of these was I found at Grasmere, Staten Island, New York, many years ago, and is now in the Museum of the Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences. Another came from Trenton, New Jersey, and a third from Monmouth county in the same state.
A crude face pecked in a bowlder (pi. n) I was collected by Rev. Dr William R.
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LENAPE STONE MASK FROM NEW JERSEY
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Consult: ABBOTT, C. C., Primitive Industry, p. 394, Salem, Mass., 1881. SKINNER, A., (1) Indians of Greater New York, p. 117, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1915. (2) Preliminary Report of the Archaeological Survey of New Jersey, p. 32, Bulletin 9. Geological Survey of New Jersey. Trenton, 1913. WILSON. Thomas, Prehistoric Art, Annual Report of the U. S. National Museum for 1896. p. 481, pi. 52, Washington, 1898. |
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No. 5: Note on the Archaeology of Chiriqui. By George Grant MacCurdy. Reprinted from Amer. Anlkropol., Vol. 15, 1913, No. 4. 50c.
No. 6: Petroglyphs of Saint Vincent, British West Indies. By Thomas Huckerby. Re- printed from Amer. AnlhropoL, Vol. 16, 1914. No. 2. 50c.
No. 7: Prehistoric Objects from a Shell-heap at Erin Bay, Trinidad. By J. Walter Fewkes. Reprinted from Amer. Anthropol.. Vol. 16, 1914, No. 2. 50c.
No. 8: Relations of Aboriginal Culture and En- vironment in the Lesser Antilles. By J. Walter Fewkes. Reprinted from Bull. Amer. Ceogr. Soc., Vol. 46, 1914, No. 9, 50c.
No. 9: Pottery from Certain Caves in Eastern Santo Domingo, West Indies. By Theodoor de Booy. Reprinted from Amer. Anthropol., Vol. 17, 1915, No. 1. 50c. Vol.2
No. 1: Exploration of a Munsee Cemetery near Montague, New Jersey. By George G. Heye and George H. Pepper. 1915. $1.00.
No. 2: Engraved Celts from the Antilles. By J. Walter Fewkes. 1915. 50c.
No. 3 : Certain West Indian Superstitions Per- taining to Celts. By Theodoor de Booy. Reprinted from Journ. Amer. Folk-Lore. Vol. 28, No. 107, 1915. 50c.
No. 4: The Nanticoke Community of Dela- ware. By Frank G. Speck. 1915. $1.00.
No. 5: Notes on the Archeology of Margarita Island, Venezuela. By Theodoor de Booy. 1916. 50c.
No. 6: Monolithic Axes and their Distribution in Ancient America. By Marshall H. Saville. 1916. 50c.
Vol.3
Physical Anthropology of the Lenape or Dela- wares, and of the Eastern Indians in Gen- eral. By Ales Hrdlicka. (Bur. of Amer. Ethnol., Bull. 62, 1916, with added title-page and cover.) $1.00.
Vol.4
No. 1 : The Technique of Porcupine-Quill Dec- oration among the North American Indians. By William C. Orchard. 1916. $1.00.
No. 2: Certain Archeological Investigations in Trinidad, British West Indies. By Theo- door de Booy. Reprinted from Amer. An- thropol., Vol. 19, 1917, No. 4. 50c.
No. 3: The Nacoochee Mound in Georgia. By George G. Heye, F. W. Hodge, and George H. Pepper. 1918. $1.50.
Vol.5
No. 1: A Letter of Pedro de Alvarado Relating to his Expedition to Ecuador [1534]. By Marshall H. Savffle. 1917. 50c.
No. 2: The Dieguefio Ceremony of the Death- Images. ByE. H. Davis. 1919. 50c.
No. 3: Certain Mounds in Haywood County, North Carolina. By George G. Heye. Re- printed from Holmes Anniversary Volume, 1916. 1919. 50c.
No. 4: Exploration of Aboriginal Sites at Throgs Neck and Clasons Point, New York City. By Alanson Skinner. 1919. $1.00.
Address : MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN, HEYE
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INDIAN NOTES AND MONOGRAPHS
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SANDALS AND OTHER FABRICS FROM KENTUCKY CAVES
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