Suriname folk-lore
By: by Melville J. Herskovits and Frances S. Herskovits. With transcriptions of Suriname songs and musicological analysis by M. Kolinski.
Contributors: Herskovits, Frances S. 1897- joint author.; Kolinski, Mieczyslaw, joint author.
Series: Columbia University contributions to anthropology ;; v. 27
Publisher: AMS Press
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 766
Subjects: Folklore -- Suriname.; Blacks -- Suriname.; Blacks -- Suriname -- Folklore.; Music -- Suriname.
Genres: Folklore.
Notes: Reprint of the 1936 ed.
Includes unacc. melodies, principally with words. Part of text in Negro-English with English translation.
Table of contents: title: Notes on the culture of the Paramaribo Negro.; title: Stories, riddles, proverbs, and dreams.; title: Music.; title: Appendices.; title: Bibliography (p. [761]-766)