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• The Lenape Stone: or, The Indian and the Mammoth (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1885), by Henry C. Mercer
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  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Coffee in the Gourd (1923), ed. by J. Frank Dobie (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Lenâpe and Their Legends: With the Complete Text and Symbols of the Walum Olum, a New Translation, and an Inquiry Into Its Authenticity (Philadelphia: D. G. Brinton, 1885), by Daniel G. Brinton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Library of aboriginal American literature ... ([D. G. Brinton], 1882), by Daniel G. Brinton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• New studies of Canadian folk lore. (E. M. Renouf, 1904), by Honoré Beaugrand (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Prehistoric paintings of the Diablo region, a preliminary report. (Roswell, N.M., 1960), by David Gebhard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Engravings of prehistoric specimens from Michigan, U.S.A. (Bornman, 1910), by R. Etzenhouser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Las culturas pre-hispánicas del departamento de Lima ([Talleres gráficos de la Escuela de la guardia civil y policía], 1935), by Pedro Eduardo Villar Córdova (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Picture-writing and other documents (Elanders boktryckeri aktiebolag, 1928), by Erland Nordenskiöld, Ruben Pérez Kantule, and Cuna Indian chief Néle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• El Sol pintado de Malloa. (Santiago, 1911), by Aureliano Oyarzún Navarro (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Piasa, or, The Devil among the Indians. (E. B. Fletcher, printer, 1887), by Perry A. Armstrong (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Lenâpé and their legends (AMS Press, 1969), by Daniel Garrison Brinton and C. S. Rafinesque (page images at HathiTrust)
• Petroglyphs (rock carvings) in the Susquehanna River near Safe Harbor, Pennsylvania ... (Harrisburg, 1934), by Donald A. Cadzow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oeuvres de Léon de Rosny : americanisme (E. Leroux :, 1904), by Léon de Rosny (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Walam olum (D.G. Brinton, 1885), by Daniel G. Brinton and C. S. Rafinesque (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manuscrit pictographique américain, précédé d'une notice sur l'idéographie des Peaux-Rouges (Gide, 1860), by Emmanuel Domenech, France. Ministère d'etat et de la maison de l'empereur, and Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Engravings of prehistoric specimens from Michigan, U.S.A. (R. Etzenhouser, 1910), by R. Etzenhouser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Decorative art and symbolism ([Published by order of the Trustees, American Museum of Natural History, 1902), by A. L. Kroeber and Jesup Arapaho Expedition (1899-1901) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Escritura americana : La lluvia (Impr. de F. A. Brockhaus, 1905), by Pablo Patrón and International Congress of Americanists (14th : 1904 : Stuttgart) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Picture-writing of the Blackfeet (s.n., 1894), by John MacLean and Canadian Institute (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manuscrit pictographique américain precédé d'une notice sur l'idéographie des Peaux-Rouges (Gide, 1860), by Emmanuel Domenech (page images at HathiTrust)
• La vérité sur le Livre des Sauvages (E. Dentu, 1861), by Emmanuel Domenech (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pictographs of the North American Indians. A preliminary paper. (1886), by Garrick Mallery and James Gilchrist Swan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Escritura americana La lluvia. Trabajo presentado y leido en el XIV Congreso de americanistas de Stuttgart (Impr. de F. A. Brockhaus, 1905), by Pablo Patrón and International Congress of Americanists (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Indian writings on the rock cliffs of Flathead Lake, Montana (University of Montana, 1908), by Morton J. Elrod (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legends of the Delaware Indians and picture writing (Xerox University Microfilms, 1905), by Richard Calmit Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• El signo escalonado en las ideografias americanas con especial referencia a Tihuanacu ... (Berlin, 1913), by Arthur Posnansky (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Indian sign language of the Plains Indians of North America (William Tomkins, 1948), by William Tomkins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La veríté sur le Livre des sauvages (E. Dentu, 1861), by Emmanuel Domenech (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Piasa bird : tracing the fate of the petroglyph known by this name from its earliest mention to the present day (Ouatoga Society, 1955), by John William Gibbons (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dakota winter counts as a source of Plains history ([Washington] : [U.S. G.P.O.], [1960], 1960), by James H. Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Picture-Writing of the American Indians: Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822, by Garrick Mallery (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pictographs of the North American Indians. A preliminary paper: Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 3-256, by Garrick Mallery, contrib. by James G. Swan (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Lenâpé and Their Legends: With the complete text and symbols of the Walam olum, a new translation, and an inquiry into its authenticity, by Daniel G. Brinton, contrib. by C. S. Rafinesque (Gutenberg ebook)

• Sources of ancient Middle American history (1923), by Louise S. Brekke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Libro del Messico, donato dal Sig. Co. Valerio Zani al Sig. March. Cospi il di XXVI Dicre. MDCLXV. (Danesi, 1898), by Università di Bologna. Biblioteca (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manuscrit du cacique (Genéve : Imprimerie Aubert-Schuchardt, 1891., 1891), by Henri de Saussure (page images at HathiTrust)

• Archives paléographiques de l'Orient et de l'Amérique publiées avec de notices historiques et philologiques (Mainsonneuve et Cie, 1869), by Léon de Rosny (page images at HathiTrust)

• Animal figures in the Maya codices (Published by the Museum, 1910), by Alfred M. Tozzer and Glover M. Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Representation of deities of the Maya manuscripts (Pub. by the Museum, 1904), by Paul Schellhas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les manuscrits précolombiens (E. Leroux, 1893), by Georges Raynaud and Gabriel Eloffe (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of the manuscript Troano (Govt. Print. Off., 1882), by Cyrus Thomas, Diego de Landa, and Daniel Garrison Brinton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The books of Chilan Balam, the prophetic and historic records of the Mayas of Yucatan. (E. Stern & co., 1882), by Daniel G. Brinton and Numismatic Society of Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• La conquista de México efectuada por Hernán Cortés, según el Códice jeroglífico Troano-americano. (Tip. de la Oficina impresora del timbre, 1897), by Dámaso Sotomayor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches sur le Codex Troano (Ernest Leroux, 1876), by Hyacinthe Charencey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoranda on the Maya calendars used in the books of Chilan Balam (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1901), by Charles P. Bowditch and Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manuscrit troano : études sur le système graphique et la langue des Mayas (Paris : Imprimerie impériale, MDCCCLXIX-MDCCCLXX [1869]-[1870], 1869), by abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg and Imprimerie impériale (France) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Juicio sobre lo que sirvio de base a las primeras teogonías : traducción del manuscrito mayo perteneciente al Señor Miró : observaciones sobre algunos otros datos encontrados en los monumentos y manuscritos mejicanos, que prueban las comunicaciones antiquísimas que existieron entre el viejo y el nuevo mundo (Imp. de R. de Zayas, 1873), by J. M. Melgar y Serrano (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commentary on the Maya manuscript in the Royal Public Library of Dresden (Published by the Museum, 1906), by Ernst Wilhelm Förstemann, A. M. Parker, Selma Wesselhoeft, and A. M. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Popol vuh : the mythic and heroic sagas of the Kichés of Central America (D. Nutt, 1908), by Lewis Spence and James Ballantyne and Co (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Erläuterungen zur Mayahandschrift der Königlichen Öffentlichen Bibliothek zu Dresden (Warnatz & Lehmann, 1886), by Ernst Wilhelm Förstemann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Chilam Balam books and the possibility of their translation ([s.n.], 1917), by Alfred M. Tozzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Pamphlets (1891-1917., 1891), by Jesse Walter Fewkes, Alexander MacGregor Stephen, and J. G. Owens (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The historical value of the books of Chilan Balam. (s.n., 1911), by Sylvanus Griswold Morley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoranda on the Maya calendars used in the books of Chilan Balam (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1901), by Charles P. Bowditch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur Entzifferung der Mayahandschriften (Druck von C. Heinrich, 1887), by Ernst Wilhelm Förstemann and Germany) Sächsische Landesbibliothek (Dresden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über das papier der Maya-codices u. einiger altmexikanischer bilderhandschriften. (R. Bertling, 1912), by Rudolf Schwede and Koniglich Sächsische Technische Hochschule (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Códice Maya denominado Cortesiano, que se conserva en el Museo Arqueológico Nacional (Madrid). Reproducción fotocromolitográfica ordenada en la misma forma que el original (Madrid, 1892), by Juan de Dios de la Rada y Delgado and Jerónimo López de Ayala y del Hierro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Los grandes ciclos de la historia maya según el manuscrito de Chumayel : compte-rendu del XVII Congreso Internacional de Americanistas efectuado en la Ciudad de México con motivo del centenario de su independencia septiembre de 1910 (Impr. de L. Rosado Vega, 1912), by Juan Martínez Hernández, Juan José Hoil, and Mexico) International Congress of Americanists (17th : 1910 : Mexico City (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Popol Vuh: The Mythic and Heroic Sagas of the Kichés of Central America, by Lewis Spence (Gutenberg ebook)
• Commentary on the Maya Manuscript in the Royal Public Library of Dresden, by Ernst Wilhelm Förstemann, trans. by A. M. Parker and Selma Wesselhoeft (Gutenberg ebook)
• Memoranda on the Maya Calendars Used in the Books of Chilan Balam, by Charles P. Bowditch (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Books of Chilan Balam: The Prophetic and Historic Records of the Mayas of Yucatan, by Daniel G. Brinton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Representation of Deities of the Maya Manuscripts, by Paul Schellhas, trans. by A. M. Parker and Selma Wesselhoeft (Gutenberg ebook)

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