Ashanti Folk Tales from Ghana [sound recording]
date: label: Date
content: 1960
name: label: producer
content: Courlander, Harold 1908-1996
notes: label: Notes
content: Folkways 7710
label: Notes
content: w/fragment of letter CDR copy Harold Courlander reads excerpts from his The hat-shaking dance and other tales from the Gold Coast.
label: Table of contents
content: All stories are Anansi's/How Anansi got them --Anansi, the oldest of animals/How Anansi proved it --Nyame's well/Why the frog has no tail --Two feasts for Anansi/Why Anansi is very thin in the middle --Anansi plays dead/Why Anansi hides in dark corners --The porcupine's hoe/Why there are many hoes in Ashanti
label: Repository Loc.
content: Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington, D.C. 20024. Call 202-633-7322 for appointment. Fax: 202-633-7019. Email: rinzlerarchives@si.edu
place: label: Place
content: Ghana
topic: label: Topic
content: Storytelling
culture: label: Culture
content: Ghanaians
label: Culture
content: Ashanti (African people)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Moses and Frances Asch Collection, 1939-1986 228428
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Local number
content: FW-ASCH-7RR-0933
objectType: label: Type
content: Musical sound recordings
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only
physicalDescription: label: Physical description
content: 1 sound-tape reel : analog ; 7 in