Juliette Ortega, Gloria Gonzalez, Alfonso Chavez, Barbara Morton, recorders, 1970
Item — Box: 1, CD: 33
Scope and Contents
Ortega: Ramon Garcia, b. 1905, Bosque, NM. Poor recording. Don Cacahuate (anecdote, three more stories, about su lonche, el calendario and que venia cortado, nearly inaudible).
Ortega: Jose Gonzalez, b. 1902, Socorro, NM. 1. Los capitanes de Pancho Villa (good recording, local story of Domingo Valles, releases three revolutionary captains of Pancho Villa captured in Columbus raid and put in Albuquerque jail, he takes them to his home in San Juan, then to Truth or Consequences, Hot Springs, and across the border to Mexico, Mexican Revolution); 2. La muerte de Juan Carrillo (good recording, local history, Carrillo was like a lawyer, defended the people of Belen against the corrupt politicians, their gang killed him in Rio Puerco, left his wife for dead, they also killed the Rio Puerco postmaster, land, politics, murder, crime, gangsters).
Gonzalez: Gloria Gonzalez, Texas, Albuquerque. 1. Un mejicano entre gringos (fair recording, anecdote, a Mexican farm laborer not knowing English, mixed up words, Joe and rain when talking to his American friends, Mexican immigrant, Mexico, language); 2. Si dices mentiras, lies (fair recording, relato, story, her parents said never to lie or she would get a hot louse on the tip of her tongue, discipline, children, family, women).; 3. El nino y el cura (fair recording, anecdote, child ask priest if God is everywhere, even in his Aunt Mary's yard, child said priest lied because aunt does not have a yard, children, religion, church, women).
Gonzalez: Martha Vialpando: 1. El maromero y las viejitas (anecdote, the tumbler who shows the priest his art and the old ladies at confession who think they need to do the same, one had no panties, women); 2. Chon Garcia (anecdote, Chon, a local drunkard trying to get home in the early hours of the morning, drinking); 3. El borracho y los postes, anecdote, (drunkard bumps into telephone poles, counting how many until he gets home, drinking); 4. El borracho en el velorio (good recording, song in story, anecdote, thinks the candles for the wake are for a birthday party, humor, drinking); 5. Los pollitos (animal fable, baby chickens, a good chick wants to play hide and seek, bad chick want to go to the market to see the naked chicken on sale there); 6. El borracho en la iglesia (anecdote, drunkard in church, upset because priest won't give him communion wafer, thinks it is alka seltzer, drinking); 7. in a second story, priest gives the drunkard a cork in his mouth instead of the wafer, man believes it is the body of Christ, so hard it must be a bone from His body, drinking); 8. El borracho en la misa (anecdote, he mistakes line of people waiting for confession for a line at the bar, invites everyone for a drink, drinking); 9. El borracho en la alameda, los arboles, el bosque (anecdote, on way home bumps into so many trees, thinks it is a parade, sits on curb to wait until it is over, drinking); 10. El frances y el avion Concord (modern French airliner, largest airplane in world it, has movie films, a pool, but will it take off); El apostel trece (anecdote, artist paints thirteen instead of twelve apostles, when mistake pointed out, he puts a sign on the last one, that only stopped by for dinner and will be leaving); 11. El loco con la carrucha (anecdote, insane man pushes the wheel barrow upside down so no one will put sand or rocks in it).
Gonzalez: Josefina Cabral. 1. Good recording. El borrachito en el velorio (anecdote, drunkard at wake for woman, sees picture of his favorite baseball player, thinks wake is for him and hugs the coffin, gets thrown out of the room, drinking, funeral, muerte, death); 2. La viejita en el velorio (anecdote, at wake for dead man, woman not wanting to use coffee cup used by the dead man, drinks from water basin used to bathe his body, funeral, death, women); 3. El nino y su hermano (anecdote, when pregnant mother lets her son touch her stomach and see where the baby's foot, head, and hands are, little child gets sad and believes baby is not coming anymore that his mother ate the baby, birth, women, dhilden, child birth); 4. El mal de ojo (folk belief, before hugging a child need make a cross with saliva on forehead, cure for evil eye, children, health, medicine); 5. Los mezquinos, folk belief, (warts, cure, sack of salt in fire, health, medicine, birth); 6. Los ninos y las unas (folk belief, don't cut nails of baby for three months or will have bad eye sight or go blind, children, mal ojo); 7. Dicho (folk saying, freckles, Una cara sin pecas es como un jardin sin flores).
Chavez: Abran Chavez, b. 1922, Canjilon, NM. 1. Reincarnacion (Fair recording. folk belief, a woman dies in childbirth and a thousand miles away another girl grows up and remembers the experiences of the deceased woman, reincarnation, proven by visit to site, rebirth, ESP, women, death, muerte) ; 2. La mujer en el puente (good recording, folk belief, woman driving a wagon with horses is killed on a bridge, she is seen there often asking for a ride, one couple gives her a ride in their car, vanishes, laughter, ghost).
Chavez: Tomasita Apodaca, b. 1883, Canjilon, NM. 1. Fair recording. Las tripitas, folk tale about La Cenicienta golosa, variation of Cinderella story, women); 2. Delgadina, folk ballad, corrido (spoken story of the king who takes his daughter as his mistress, women, incest, family, well summarized by informant).
Morton: Josie Baca, Corrales, NM. Good recording. 1. El tecolote (witch story, man who shoots bullet with cross on it and wounds the bothersome owl, next day old woman who gets a ruptured intestine); 2. La bruja (witch story, an old mother witch, her husband, her daughter, her suiter, turns youngsters into a chicken and a rooster, women); 3. El brujo (witch story, male man witch, a group of boys follow a light at night, turns out to be a man, threats them, ball of light); 4. Juan Sin Miedo (folk tale, a boy, Fearless Juan, stays over night in haunted house, solves the mystery); 5. El muchacho goloso y su companero (folk tale, a greedy boy and his friend eating in a cafe, mixing up their signals, language); 6. La comadre bruja y la esposa del borreguero (witch story, the witch, the sheep herder and his wife, witch turns herself and wife into owls to spy on the man, death of the wife, women).
Ortega: Jose Gonzalez, b. 1902, Socorro, NM. 1. Los capitanes de Pancho Villa (good recording, local story of Domingo Valles, releases three revolutionary captains of Pancho Villa captured in Columbus raid and put in Albuquerque jail, he takes them to his home in San Juan, then to Truth or Consequences, Hot Springs, and across the border to Mexico, Mexican Revolution); 2. La muerte de Juan Carrillo (good recording, local history, Carrillo was like a lawyer, defended the people of Belen against the corrupt politicians, their gang killed him in Rio Puerco, left his wife for dead, they also killed the Rio Puerco postmaster, land, politics, murder, crime, gangsters).
Gonzalez: Gloria Gonzalez, Texas, Albuquerque. 1. Un mejicano entre gringos (fair recording, anecdote, a Mexican farm laborer not knowing English, mixed up words, Joe and rain when talking to his American friends, Mexican immigrant, Mexico, language); 2. Si dices mentiras, lies (fair recording, relato, story, her parents said never to lie or she would get a hot louse on the tip of her tongue, discipline, children, family, women).; 3. El nino y el cura (fair recording, anecdote, child ask priest if God is everywhere, even in his Aunt Mary's yard, child said priest lied because aunt does not have a yard, children, religion, church, women).
Gonzalez: Martha Vialpando: 1. El maromero y las viejitas (anecdote, the tumbler who shows the priest his art and the old ladies at confession who think they need to do the same, one had no panties, women); 2. Chon Garcia (anecdote, Chon, a local drunkard trying to get home in the early hours of the morning, drinking); 3. El borracho y los postes, anecdote, (drunkard bumps into telephone poles, counting how many until he gets home, drinking); 4. El borracho en el velorio (good recording, song in story, anecdote, thinks the candles for the wake are for a birthday party, humor, drinking); 5. Los pollitos (animal fable, baby chickens, a good chick wants to play hide and seek, bad chick want to go to the market to see the naked chicken on sale there); 6. El borracho en la iglesia (anecdote, drunkard in church, upset because priest won't give him communion wafer, thinks it is alka seltzer, drinking); 7. in a second story, priest gives the drunkard a cork in his mouth instead of the wafer, man believes it is the body of Christ, so hard it must be a bone from His body, drinking); 8. El borracho en la misa (anecdote, he mistakes line of people waiting for confession for a line at the bar, invites everyone for a drink, drinking); 9. El borracho en la alameda, los arboles, el bosque (anecdote, on way home bumps into so many trees, thinks it is a parade, sits on curb to wait until it is over, drinking); 10. El frances y el avion Concord (modern French airliner, largest airplane in world it, has movie films, a pool, but will it take off); El apostel trece (anecdote, artist paints thirteen instead of twelve apostles, when mistake pointed out, he puts a sign on the last one, that only stopped by for dinner and will be leaving); 11. El loco con la carrucha (anecdote, insane man pushes the wheel barrow upside down so no one will put sand or rocks in it).
Gonzalez: Josefina Cabral. 1. Good recording. El borrachito en el velorio (anecdote, drunkard at wake for woman, sees picture of his favorite baseball player, thinks wake is for him and hugs the coffin, gets thrown out of the room, drinking, funeral, muerte, death); 2. La viejita en el velorio (anecdote, at wake for dead man, woman not wanting to use coffee cup used by the dead man, drinks from water basin used to bathe his body, funeral, death, women); 3. El nino y su hermano (anecdote, when pregnant mother lets her son touch her stomach and see where the baby's foot, head, and hands are, little child gets sad and believes baby is not coming anymore that his mother ate the baby, birth, women, dhilden, child birth); 4. El mal de ojo (folk belief, before hugging a child need make a cross with saliva on forehead, cure for evil eye, children, health, medicine); 5. Los mezquinos, folk belief, (warts, cure, sack of salt in fire, health, medicine, birth); 6. Los ninos y las unas (folk belief, don't cut nails of baby for three months or will have bad eye sight or go blind, children, mal ojo); 7. Dicho (folk saying, freckles, Una cara sin pecas es como un jardin sin flores).
Chavez: Abran Chavez, b. 1922, Canjilon, NM. 1. Reincarnacion (Fair recording. folk belief, a woman dies in childbirth and a thousand miles away another girl grows up and remembers the experiences of the deceased woman, reincarnation, proven by visit to site, rebirth, ESP, women, death, muerte) ; 2. La mujer en el puente (good recording, folk belief, woman driving a wagon with horses is killed on a bridge, she is seen there often asking for a ride, one couple gives her a ride in their car, vanishes, laughter, ghost).
Chavez: Tomasita Apodaca, b. 1883, Canjilon, NM. 1. Fair recording. Las tripitas, folk tale about La Cenicienta golosa, variation of Cinderella story, women); 2. Delgadina, folk ballad, corrido (spoken story of the king who takes his daughter as his mistress, women, incest, family, well summarized by informant).
Morton: Josie Baca, Corrales, NM. Good recording. 1. El tecolote (witch story, man who shoots bullet with cross on it and wounds the bothersome owl, next day old woman who gets a ruptured intestine); 2. La bruja (witch story, an old mother witch, her husband, her daughter, her suiter, turns youngsters into a chicken and a rooster, women); 3. El brujo (witch story, male man witch, a group of boys follow a light at night, turns out to be a man, threats them, ball of light); 4. Juan Sin Miedo (folk tale, a boy, Fearless Juan, stays over night in haunted house, solves the mystery); 5. El muchacho goloso y su companero (folk tale, a greedy boy and his friend eating in a cafe, mixing up their signals, language); 6. La comadre bruja y la esposa del borreguero (witch story, the witch, the sheep herder and his wife, witch turns herself and wife into owls to spy on the man, death of the wife, women).
Dates
- 1970
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
- From the Collection: Cobos, Rubén (Person)
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
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