Tropæolum minus and majus, reversion in hybrids of, i.
Tropæolum majus= is the climbing Nasturtium, or great Indian Cress.
Among the best examples of such genesis traditions are those recorded in the Walam Olum of the Delawares and Matthews' Navaho Origin Legend.
Although Heckewelder makes the Alligewi, as he prefers to call them, flee down the Mississippi after their final defeat, the Walam Olumchronicle says only "all the Talega go south.
The author has chosen to assume, with Brinton and Rafinesque, that the Walam Olum reference is to the settlement of the Dutch at New York and the English in Virginia soon after 1600.
He says himself: "These actual olum were first obtained in 1820 as a reward for a medical cure, deemed a curiosity, and were unexplicable.
It is not known that any of the original woodcut pictographs of the Walam Olum are now in existence, although a statement of Rafinesque implies that he had seen them.
If you live in the Midlands or the South, where this Chilian Tropæolum would probably not do well, you had better be content with the Ampelopsis Veitchii, the best of the Virginian creepers.
This is the Flame Flower, the Tropæolum Speciosum, whose vermilion trumpets can be seen two miles away on a clear day.
The flower of the chivalry of Munster perished also on that fatal field; for the seven sons of Ollioll Olum who had come to assist King Art, their mother's brother, were slain to a man on the field or in the rout that followed.
It will be noted that he recognizes the text of the WALUM OLUM to be a native production composed in one of the ancient southern dialects of the tongue, the Unami (Wonami) or the Unalachtgo (Wonalatoko).
Contains the complete text and symbols, 184 in number, of the WALAM OLUM or RED SCORE of the Delaware Indians, with the full original text, and a new translation, notes and vocabulary.
The myths embodied in the earlier portion of the WALAM OLUM are perfectly familiar to one acquainted with Algonkin mythology.
The crucial question arises: Was the WALAM OLUM a forgery by Rafinesque?
It is one of the points in favor of the authenticity of the WALAM OLUM that this halcyon epoch is mentioned in its lines, though no reference to it is contained in printed books relating to the Lenape legends.
Pictographic System The pictographic system which the WALAM OLUM presents is clearly that of the Western Algonkins, most familiar to us through examples from the Chipeways and Shawnees.
Even to an ear not acquainted with the language, the chants of the WALAM OLUM are obviously in metrical arrangement.
Yet it must be said that the pictographs of the WALAM OLUM have less resemblance to these than to those published by the Chipeway chief, George Copway, in 1850, and by Schoolcraft, in his "History and Statistics of the Indian Tribes.
I have printed the WALAM OLUM is a small quarto of forty unnumbered leaves, in the handwriting of Rafinesque.
Rafinesque's account of the origin of the THE WALAM OLUM may be introduced by a passage in the last work he published, "The Good Book.
The derivation of the name WALAM OLUM has been largely anticipated on previous pages.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "olum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
