MS 7532 "Negro Folktales from the Gulf States"
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 7532
name: label: Creator
content: Hurston, Zora Neale (1891-01-07?-1960-01-28-)
topic: label: Topic
content: African Americans -- Folklore
label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
creator: label: Creator
content: Hurston, Zora Neale (1891-01-07?-1960-01-28-)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 248 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1927-1929
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS7532
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 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.
label: Scope and Contents
content: The manuscript includes a notes on locations, list of informants, a list of stories, and a table of contents as well as the folklore.