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Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942
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Item Title
Georgia Skin
Author/Creator
Performer: Hurston, Zora Neale
Created/Published
June 18, 1939
Notes
duration: 2 minutes, 2 seconds
A description of the card game "Georgia Skin"--"the most favorite gambling game among the workers of the South."
Zora Neale Hurston, originally of Eatonville, Florida, was already a published novelist and folklorist when she took a job with the Federal Writers' Project in Florida.
Subjects
African Americans
spoken
Ethnography
Music
Narratives
Interviews
Federal Music Project Office
Jacksonville, Florida
Duval County
Object Type
Related Names
Collector: Halpert, Herbert
Collector: [Kennedy, Stetson]
Speaker: Hurston, Zora Neale Hurston
Speaker: Halpert, Herbert
Medium
sound recording
Language
English
Call Number
AFS 3137B:1
Part of
Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections 1937-1942
Digital ID
afcflwpa 3137b1
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcflwpa.3137b1
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