2. Rattle of Turtleshell used by Mĭsiʹngʷ‛ 33 3. Charm representing Mĭsinghâliʹkŭn 37 4. Mask from the Canadian Lenape 39 5. Stone Head or Mĭsiʹngʷ‛ 40 6. Central Post of Ceremonial House showing Carved Face 83 7. Side Posts of Ceremonial House showing Carved Faces 84 8. Ceremonial Fire-drill used at the Annual Ceremony 86 9. Rattle of Land-tortoise Shell, used by Celebrants at the Annual Ceremony 93 10. Drum made of Dried Deerskin, used at the Annual Ceremony 94 11. Sacred Drumsticks, used at the Annual Ceremony 102 12. _a_, Plain Drumstick used at the Annual Ceremony. _b_, Prayerstick 102 13. Paint-dish of Bark, used at the Annual Ceremony 105 14. Drum of Dried Deerskin. Minsi type 129 15. _a_, Drumstick, Minsi type. _b_, Prayerstick 130 16. _a_, Regalia of Otter-skin used in the Otter Rite. _b_, Regalia as worn 178 17. Flint and Steel used in the Otter Rite 180 18. Rattle or Land-tortoise Shell used in the Otter Rite 181 19. Peyote “Button” 185 PREFACE The following paper is intended to be the first of a series concerning different phases of the culture of the Lenape or Delaware Indians, once a numerous people forming a confederacy of three closely related tribes, the Unami, the Minsi or Muncey, and the Unala‛ʹtko or Unalachtigo, first encountered by the whites in what is now New Jersey, Delaware, eastern Pennsylvania, and southeastern New York, but at last accounts[1] reduced to some 1900 souls scattered in Oklahoma and the Province of Ontario, Canada, with a few in Wisconsin and Kansas. Of these the Lenape of Oklahoma seem to be mainly of Unami extraction, the rest largely Minsi, while the Unala‛ʹtko appear to have merged with the others and to have lost their identity.