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Booklets, Journals and Offprints, 1948-1981

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 81

Scope and Content

From the Collection: The Ernest Warren Baughman collection contains six boxes of folktales (boxes 1-5 and 12) and six boxes of index cards recording folk cures, proverbs, rhymes and games, riddles, superstitions, customs, jokes, and weather lore (boxes 6-11), all collected by his students, mostly at the University of New Mexico. Many of the stories were collected from New Mexican villages and towns, containing local content. The collection is arranged alphabetically by the name of the collector. Most of the index cards also contain the name of the informant. Box 18 contains folklore audio recordings (analog - one cassette tape, eight reel-to-reel tapes, seven non-commercial records). No digital files available.

Many of the students who collected the proverbs etc. in the index cards also collected the folktales. The most prominent of these students is Leslie Marmon Silko, now known as the author of Laguna Woman: Poems, Ceremony, Storyteller, Almanac of the Dead and others. In the original inventory she is listed under the name Leslie M. Chapman.

Dates

  • 1948-1981

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English Spanish

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research. Boxes 6-11 contain loose index cards, please handle carefully.

Extent

From the Collection: 18 Linear Feet

General

  1. Peter Aceves, Magnús Einarsson-Mullarký. Folklore Archives of the World: a Preliminary Guide. 1968
  2. Erasmus Foster Darby. The Great Rattlesnake Roundup. Undated
  3. Erasmus Foster Darby. Idy, the Fox-Chasing Cow. 1954
  4. Erasmus Foster Darby. The Vegetarian Mosquito. 1954
  5. Richard F. Fleck. Thunder in the Rockies: Echoes From the Wilderness. 1975
  6. Charles S. Guthrie. Riddles from the Cumberland Valley. 1973
  7. Melissa Hughes. The Cat on the Highway. 1956
  8. W.W. Hill and Dorothy W. Hill. Navajo Coyote Tales and Their Position in the Southern Athabaskan Group. 1945
  9. Wallace W. Higgins. Mine Dogs and Dog Miners of Ohio's First Coal Mines. 1958
  10. Raymond R. MacCurdy and Daniel D. Stanley. Judaeo-Spanish Ballads from Atlanta, Georgia. 1951
  11. Charles Nahl. The Idle and Industrious Miner. 1945, c1854
  12. Sociedad Folklórica del Uruguay. Acta de Fundación Estatuto – Informe Normas de Investigación Folklórica. 1945
  13. Stith Thompson. The Future of Folklore Research in the United States. (inscribed by author) 1949

Repository Details

Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository

Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451