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Tell my horse / by Zora Neale Hurston.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 6230
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hurston, Zora Neale, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jamaica--Social life and customs.
- Haiti--Social life and customs.
- Haiti--Politics and government.
- Vodou.
- Haitians.
- Manners and customs.
- Politics and government.
- Haiti.
- Jamaica.
- Genre:
- Dust jackets (Binding) -- 1938.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- White, Arthur(?) T. (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 301, [1] pages, [26] pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia ; New York ; London ; Toronto : J.B. Lippincott Company, [1938]
- Summary:
- The author recounts her experiences as an initiate into the voodoo practices of Haiti and Jamaica in the 1930s.
- Contents:
- Jamaica
- Politics and personalities of Haiti
- Voodoo in Haiti.
- Notes:
- Illustrated lining papers.
- "Songs of worship to voodoo gods" (words and music): Pages 279-301.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2021 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has dated 20th-century autograph ("Arthur[?] T White November 1938") on front free endpaper.
- Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Cited in:
- Schimmel, C.F. OK, I'll do it myself (2nd ed., revised), 33
- OCLC:
- 543146
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