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Gail Ogawa, Leroy Aragon, John DeFlice, Anonymous, recorders, 1969, 1970

 Item — Box: 1, CD: 38

Scope and Contents

Ogawa, 1970: Lito Emilio Baros, b. 1903, Bernalillo, NM. 1. Part II, El chiquiado, chiquiao, y Cruz Hurtado; 2. Cruz Hurtado, cazador, y el venadito (fair recording, mentira, tall tale, without his buckshot bullets, Cruz shoots with his flintlock - a deer with cherry pits, later he sees the deer, had grown a cherry tree like antlers); 3. Don Cacahuate (anecdote, in dark instead of a donkey harnesses a she - bear to carry his wood home); 4. Cruz Hurtado y su carro que volvio solo, (mentira, tall tale, Cruz, when stuck in mud, left his wood cart behind, when the leather straps dried and shrunk, they pulled wagon - so it came home by itself).

Ogawa: Sr. F. Jaramillo, b. 1890, Albuquerque, NM. 1. El gorgojo, (mentira, story of a weevil arrested by two grasshopper sheriffs and on trial in court of a mouse, his sentence, mention of other insects pitijul and jurundun).

Ogawa: Sra. F. Jaramillo, b. 1895, Albuquerque, NM. Adivinanzas (two riddles, Christ coming to earth and giving us grapes, wine).

Ogawa: Sr. F. Jaramillo, b. 1890, Albuquerque, NM. 1. Adivinanzas (three riddles); 2. Versos, Estrellita reluciente, etc.

Ogawa: Sra. F. Jaramillo, b. 1895, Albuquerque. . La pera (folk poetry, song of looking for pear trees and Francisco Aragon, tells una maxima).

Ogawa: Sra. F. Jaramillo, b. 1890, Albuquerque, NM. Verso (folk poetry, Si quieres comer guisado, if you want to eat sauteed meat, Manuel Manteca).

Ogawa: Sra. F. Jaramillo, b. 1895, Albuquerque, NM. 1. Verso (folk poetry, about San Jose, Maria, St. Joseph, Virgin Mary) ; 2. El piojo (relacion, mentira, a louse is caught outside of Havana, Cuba, and is taken to a princess in Europe, incomplete).

Ogawa: Roberto Dominguez, b. 1945, Mexico. Poema (poem, love for Ana Maria, women, poor recording).

Ogawa: Angelina Gonzalez, b. 1925, Albuquerque, NM. Las sopapillas (poor recording, relato, Indian raiders are hungry, smell sopapillas frying, one gets on roof of farmhouse, pokes hole in roof, tries to get the food, woman in house throws pan of hot grease at the Indian, Native American Indian, cooking, food, frontier women).

Aragon, 1969: Alberto Anzures, b. 1914, Albuquerque, NM. 1. Good recording. El conejo, la vibora y el chile (folk tale, rabbit find a chile pod, discovers a snake has taken over his cave, leaves the chile for the snake and runs off); 2. El borreguito y la vibora (folk tale, a lamb, a snake and a fox); 3. El cuervo y el chanate (folk tale, crow's advice to little black bird how to get away when he sees a man); 4. El perico que compro lena (anecdote, traditional story of the parrot ordering wood from the woodman and the master getting had at him and also the cat); 5. La bruja, el rey y la reina (folk tale, the witch, the king and the princess that the witch turns into a dove); 6. La Doce Verdades del Mundo (folk tale, variation of the story of the devil taking a man's son, demanding the man recite the twelve truths, and man finding someone who knows them); 7. Los astronomos, (folk tale, another account of the weathermen not predicting rain and the donkey getting it right, weather, see CD 12).

DeFlice, 1969: Cipriano Castillo, b. 1902, Los Chavez, NM. Good recording. 1. Alberto y Elena (folk tale, two children and their dog Otelo, who saves them from attack by a bull, their father makes a special collar for dog, children); 2. Verso (folk poetry, verse with numbers counting and words about catching a rabbit); 3. Adivinanzas (three riddles); 4. Los ninos comidos por los lobos (relato, parents leave children alone, they go outside and wolf eats them, discipline, family, danger); 5. Adivinanzas (riddle about death, muerte, burial of a deceased Native American Indian)); 6. El rey de la plaza (folk tale, Genoveva de Brabante, Genoveva de Bravante, king thinks his queen is immoral, banishes her, she goes to forest has a baby, deer helps her, later king finds her, learns the truth, were only lies about her, they live happily every after, women, marriage).

DeFlice: Lelo Ortega, b. 1904, Albuquerque, NM. Heraclio Bernal (legend, he is a Mexicano, Mexican folk hero, Mexico, end of the ninteenth century, like Robin Hood, epidodes in his life, woman turns him into the government and he is shot, women, law, love, injustice).

DeFlice: Luisa Saavedra, b. 1904, Albuquerque, NM. 1. Una mona en un nogal (folk poetry, monkey climbs a cactus); 2. La escuela (education, Luisa, stories of her days in school, children, education).

DeFlice: Gloria Roybal, b. 1887, Albuquerque, NM. Semana Santa (folk tale, man tricks woman into giving him all the squash that was being canned for Holy Week dinner, Semana Santa, Easter).

DeFlice: Albinita Chavez, b. 1899, Chimayo, NM. Decima (good recording, folk poetry, ten lines, Yo sin Dios no quiero estar, not live without God, religion, church, women).

DeFlice: Luz Lopez, b. 1883, Penasco, NM. Rezo, (short prayer to San Cayetano, religion, church, women).

Anonymous: Anonymous, 1970: 1. El pajaro verde (good recording, Part I, probably recorded by John DeFlice, 1969, Albuquerque, folk tale, youngest of seven girls has married a bird who is really a prince, evil sister caused the bird prince to leave so wife will have to find him, enchanted, adventures of her quest for her husband, women).

Dates

  • 1969, 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

Repository Details

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

Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
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