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Jo-Ann Dehtaziani, Pauline Rivera, Zita Garcia, recorders, 1973

 Item — Box: 1, CD: 23

Scope and Contents

Dehtaziani: Cristino Gallegos, Vallecitos, NM, Rio Arriba County. Los dos hermanos envidiosos (fiar recording, folk tale, the two envious brothers, song in story. Older brothers kill and bury the younger one in the forest, an Indian shows up with a singing flower which tells of their evil deed, murder, crime, death, muerte).

Dehtaziani: Jerry Martinez, Ojo Caliente, NM. 1. Leyenda de la campana perdida (legend, hardships of villagers of Vallecitos collecting metal to cast their own church bell, which was sadly taken away by the Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, very moving story, one of best in collection said Cobos); 2. El flechazo de una india, (legend, at Ojo Caliente, site of former Indian pueblo, an Hispano and Indian bet on the Indian shooting an arrow across the river, he does but hits an Native American Indian woman by her home).

Dehtazinai: Cristino Gallegos, Vallecitos, NM. El sol y la luna (folk tale, moon (female) scolds sun (male) for roaming around at night so late so much, moon offers to go out with sun at midnight, but sun not take up offer).

Dehtaziani: Pablo Jaramillo, Vallecitos, NM. Adivinanzas, riddles, la baraja, el pino y el pinón, (pine tree, its cone, pinon nut and playing cards).

Dehtaziani: Frances Jaramillo, Vallecitos, NM. Adivinanza, riddle, (quien soy yo, el papel, las letras, los cinco dedos de la mano y la pluma, children).

Dehtaziani: Jose Valdez, b. 1913, Ojo Caliente, NM. La tortolita (the little bird, animal fable, fox wanting to eat a turtle dove and her babies, she out smarts him.)

Rivera: Fabian Herrera, b. 1895, La Zorra, NM, possibly Otero County, unknown?. 1. Un discurso (declamation, short political speech, discourse, politics, on New Mexico education, school); 2. Oracion (bedtime prayer to guardian angel, Fabian learned it from his mother); 3. Cancion, Yo no ruego con mi amor (fair recording, popular song, music, why it is best not to beg your lover, women).

Rivera: Rafael Vigil, b. 1914, Ojo Caliente, NM. 1. La zorrita y el cuervo (animal fable, a crow, a fox and a piece of cheese that the fox wants); 2. El cochinito (anecdote, man is thinking of feeding potato peelings to a hog, which hog he will eat later).

Rivera: Stella Vargas, b. 1900, Ojo Caliente, NM. 1. Consejos de un rey a su hijo (fok tale, king advises his son on spending too much money, son is about to hang himself when his allowance runs out, sees a chest of moeny and realizes how much he has squandered); 2. La abuelita a quien hicieron aullar (anecdote, man bets friend he can make his grandmother hoot like an owl, asks her how long she has been married to grandpa, old age, womoen).

Rivera: Federico Romero, b. 1920, Ojo Caliente, NM. El indio y sus bolitas de oro (folk tale, Indian knocks on door of village miser asking the value of a gold nugget, after dinner the miser asked to see the nugget, Indian said had none was only asking in case he ever found one).

Rivera: Eutilia Chavez, b. 1890, Canon - Vallecitos, NM. Pedro y Pablo de Urdemalas (folk tale, when their grandmother dies of over eating, can't afford burial, so tricks neighbor into believing he has killed her and must provide funeral, death, muerte, see CD 21A).

Rivera: Guadalupe Romero, b. 1927, Ojo Caliente, NM. La indita y el indito (anecdote, dialogue Indian girl and Indian man, as she is about to be buried, asks for atole, man insists on correcting her on her request, Native American Indian, women, burial, muerte, death, funeral).

Rivera: Marcelino Herrera, b. 1927. Las tres cuestiones (folk tale, when king dislikes way a rich merchant treats his poor drunk brother, king ask merchant three questions, then poor brother steps in, answers all three, including what the king is thinking).

Garcia: Josefina Duran, b. 1909. 1. Cuento de nunca acabar (children, game, in verse, agglutinate, about a cat, ending with do you want me to repeat it again, never ending); 2. Rezos, coplas,etc. (children, a rhyme, a verse and a prayer to San Vicente).

Garcia: Ruben Vigil, b. 1915. 1. Sopitas de miel (folk tale, New Mexico Cinderella story, when Cinderella runs away with her pet ox, stepmother orders her father to kill the ox. Ox asks Cinderella to kill and bury him, ox grants her any wish she wants, with his help eventually she marries a good man) ; 2. Juanito y los gatos (folk tale, a couple, their herd of cats and their nephew Juan, they need to kill a cow every week to feed cats, trick boy plays on the couple).

Garcia: Aurora Thompson, b. 1903. 1. El Nino honrado (folk tale, young boy is overpaid, returns money to customer, happy customer takes boy and widowed mother into his home, children, honesty); 2. Los pastores de Ocate (ballad, corrido, lyrics only, about sheepherder David Gonzalez - David Gonzales, Good Friday April 7, 1885, dies in snow storm, apparently relative of Aurora).

Garcia: Josefina Duran, b. 1909. 1. Un artista (anecdote, artist commissioned to paint last supper scene for woman, has thirteen apostles instead of twelve, eliminating one of them); 2. La hormiguita (animal fable, agglutinate, children, variation of the story of baby ant, leg broken by snowflake, complaints, etc.).

Dates

  • 1973

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