Mary Owen Guatemalan folktales collection Bulk, 1915 1915-1991

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Mary Owen Guatemalan folktales collection Bulk, 1915 1915-1991

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The Mary Owen Guatemalan Folktale collection consists of two folders of folktales gathered by Mary Owen at the request of her friend George Byron Gordon, Director of the Free Museum of Science and Art, later the Penn Museum. Mary Owens transcribed seventeen folktales with notes and explanations from her valuable years of experience living in the Alta Verapaz region. Mary Owen's folktales were published in 1938 as a children's book co-authored by Marie Hendrick Jessup and Leslie Bird Simpson. Her work is also recognized in the book, "Maya Folktales from the Alta Verapaz", edited by Elin C. Danien.

0.05 linear foot; The collection is housed in two folders in an archival box. Folder one contains eight typewritten tales, Notes on the Aborigines, and information on the game Buulix Ixim. Folder two contains nine tales. All are written in English.

University of Pennsylvania: Penn Museum Archives

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