artifacts enquiry

[Dayna Bowker Lee]

Do you think they meant Western Oklahoma, because there is a separate group
of Delaware located around Anadarko, as well as the group in Eastern
Oklahoma around Bartlesville.  The Eastern [Ok.] Delaware have a lot of
genealogical information on both groups.  You might contact Jim Rementer
jimrem at aol.com - Jim is the language specialist for the Eastern Delaware.
Also, Linda Poolaw in Anadarko {sorry I don't have contact information, but
the tribal office will.}

----- Original Message -----
From: Rankin, Robert L <rankin at ku.edu>
To: 'Bruce Ingham ' <bi1 at soas.ac.uk>; <"'siouan at lists.colorado.edu
'"@hooch.colorado.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 9:25 AM
Subject: RE: artifacts enquiry


>
>
> <italic>Recently a friend of mine in the antique arms and armour trade
> showed me a war club which was said to be a "Delaware Battle Axe.  Western
> Plains".  I didn't know there were any Delawares in the Western Plains,
but
> anyway it had on it the inscription ONESHONRONEAH. This looked more like
> Iroquois than anything else to me.
>
> The Delawares were deported from their homes in the East during the Andrew
> Jackson presidency (1830's), first to N.E. Kansas, then N.E. Oklahoma. My
> present home is build on acreage from the old Delaware Reservation in
> Kansas. Hardly "western plains" by any definition. I agree it looks more
> Iroquoian with the -nron- cluster, etc. If it is, then Blair Rudes can
> probably place it for you. For the Delaware language, the person to ask
> would be Ives Goddard at the Smithsonian Institution
> <Goddard.Ives at NMNH.si.edu>.
>
> Bob