National Anthropological Archives

MS 7532 "Negro Folktales from the Gulf States"

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS7532
Creators:
Hurston, Zora Neale
Dates:
1927-1929
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
248 Pages
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
The folklore (stories, jokes, and sayings) was recorded by Hurston and used to prepare her book Mules and Men. The NAA vertical files includes a letter from Drs. Akua Duku Anokye and Sally McLendon with related copies of letters written by Hurston concerning the background of the document and Anokye and McLendon's opinion that it represents the "scholarly folkloric format" in which Hurston originally intended to present her work.
Scope and Contents
The manuscript includes a notes on locations, list of informants, a list of stories, and a table of contents as well as the folklore.

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Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 7532


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
African Americans -- Folklore Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Language and languages -- Documentation Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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