"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.

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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…