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Harold B. Tafoya, recorder, 1971

 Item — Box: 1, CD: 21A

Scope and Contents

Tafoya: Miguel Aragon, b. 1905, Las Vegas, NM. 1. Un cibolo se traga a un cibolero (tall tale, folk tale, Hispanic hunters, man swallowed by huge buffalo, survives a year by cooking with his small flint some meat inside the giant animal, a year later hunters return and from within he calls them out to save him, like whale story) ; 2. El cazador de patos (folk tale, bends barrel of gun to get all the ducks in the pond, hunting, Cleto Santillana, cazador de patos).

Tafoya: Ofelia Aragon, b. 1912, Mineral Hills, NM, West of Las Vegas. 1. Adivinanza (ridde of Padre, hijo y nieto); 2. Adivinanza (riddle, pastor con veinte ovejas, boy shepherd and his sheep, children).

Miguel Aragon, b. 1905, Las Vegas, NM. 1. Trozo de literatura (folk poetry, proverb of ten lines, read); 2. Problema para leer a la inversa (language, sentence is read correctly and then backward, por Dios); 3. Trabalenguas (tongue twister, language, on word Pablita); 4. Dialogo (Miguel reads a two part dialogue, written by a cousin); 5. Verso de literatura (reads a philosophical poem, composed by Manuel Encina); 6. Verso aprendido en la escuela (poetry, poem learned in school from the teacher, education, thanks to God for life, good things); 7. Verso de chiquiao (four couplets of dance game); 8. Verso de triguena, (leaving my land, tierra, life); 9. Verso (el cielo, por la ventana, la manana); 10. Verso de Ezequiel C. de Vaca, New Mexico Governor, (one verse, nuevo mexico hasta cuando, sadness, foreigners, loss of land, culture, North Americans, Anglos); 11. Adivinanzas (mathematics riddle).

Tafoya: Abranita Dominguez, b. 1902, Bernalillo, NM. 1. Entriega de novios (read, complete with explanation, more than 37 verses); 2. Versos (folk poetry, two verses of the valse chiquado, dance song); 3. Modo de curar el ojo (tradition, curing children bewitched with evil eye, medicine, mal de ojo, mal ojo, curandera, health).

Tafoya: Eustaquio Salas, b. 1926, Bernalillo, NM. Juan y Pedro de Urdemalas y Blanca Flor (folk tale, the two princes, Pedro marrying Blanca Flor, Juan proving she is unfaithful, other episodes, women).

Anonymous. 1. Verso.

Tafoya: Maria Gabaldon, b. 1911, Bernalillo, NM. 1. Versos (three quatrains from valse chiquiado, chiquiao; 2. Adivinanzas (four riddles).

Tafoya: Luciano Nieto, b. 1885, Bernalillo, NM. (on violin). Carlos Aguilar, b. 1948, Bernalillo, NM. (on guitar) Entriega de novios, entrega (instrumental music accompaniment, wedding, marriage).

Dates

  • 1971

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English, Spanish

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 13 boxes (12.25 cu. ft.)

Creator

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