"Zora Hurston, half-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, beating the hountar, or mama drum."

ID: 5205 ~ Source: Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/93513271/. ~ Creator: New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection. Photographer not identified.
~ Date: 1937.

This file appears in: Zora Neale Hurston: Dust Tracks on the Road in Algiers, LA.

"Zora Hurston, half-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, beating the hountar, or mama drum."

Photograph.

This file appears in: Zora Neale Hurston: Dust Tracks on the Road in Algiers, LA.

Zora Neale Hurston: Dust Tracks on the Road in Algiers, LA.

By Ann Cobb & Kathryn O'Dwyer, editor

On August 6, 1928, Zora Neale Hurston wrote a letter from 7 Bellville Court, Algiers, Louisiana, to Langston Hughes in which she writes "I have landed in the kingdom of Marie Laveau and expect to wear her crown someday” (Kaplan, 124). In Algiers,…