Interview with Bessie Jones about frizzled chickens kept for hoodoo

Audio file
Date recorded: September 26, 1961
Contributor(s): Performer: Marchand, Antoinette; Performer: Jones, Bessie; Recordist: Lomax, Alan
Subject(s):
Genre: interview/commentary
Culture: African American, Southern U.S.
Instruments: voice
Setting: Alan Lomax's apartment, 3rd Street
Location: New York City, New York, United States
Physical form: Reel to Reel
Tape number: T953
Track Number: 10
Archive ID: T953R10
Note: Frizzled chickens (chickens whose feathers don't lie flat) are wise creatures, according to Jones, and were kept around in order to scratch up hoodoo – the devil's work. Frizzled chickens have no bone marrow. (Continues previous segment, 953.9.)
Belongs to: New York City 9/61
About the session: The fourth of 21 recording sessions with Bessie Jones.
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