Ruben Cobos, Bryan Romney, recorders, 1971
Item — Box: 1, CD: 85
Scope and Contents
Cobos, 1971: Anonymous. Buffalo hunting story (good recording, a Native American Indian girl tells how an evil spirit comes along among a party of buffalo hunters and disrupts the hunt, in English, women).
Romney, 1971: Cruz Alvarez, b. 1898, Mesilla, NM. 1. Adivinanzas, two riddles (one, la mata de uva); 2. Refran, proverb (A Dios rogando y con el mazo dando, trust God but put your shoulder to the wheel, work hard).
Romney, 1971: Maria Abeyta de Vazquez, b. 1903, Dona Ana, NM. Good recording. 1. Milagro del Santo Nino de Atocha (miracle, relato, story, on way to Colorado she and family saw Indians in battle formation ready to attack, they prayed to Santo Nino de Atocha for protection and miraculously Indians did not see them and they survived, family built chapel in memory of santo, Native American Indian); 2. El origen del nombre de Las Cruces, New Mexico (place name, origin of the name of Las Cruces, replaced village of Dona Ana in importance); 3. La nina huerfanita que hizo sonreir a la Virgen (folk tale, in May, rich little girls at Mass take flowers to the Virgin Mary, poor orphan girl takes Virgen Mary pumpkin blossoms, other girls whisper gossip about her, orphan does not know how to pray and thinks the gossip is a prayer and repeats it, making the Virgin smile, women, religion, church, children) ; 4. Los indios atacaron Dona Ana, Las Cruces (local history, Native American Indian attack on Dona Ana, settlers drive them off, they kidnap beautiful young Juanita, hold her as a slave, years later she returns tired, thin, ugly, women, captive).
Romney, 1971: Cuca Chavez, b. 1921, Las Cruces, NM and Arizona. Good recording. 1. El santo de las botas (folk tale, for more farm land a rancher tears down a chapel used by his workers for worship, when the saint images are removed the workers take them home, priest warns rancher of the grave consequences of his deed, man tries to collect all the statues back, gets them all but the one with the boots, San Isidro, church, religion); 2. Los braceros (immigrants, farm laborers from Mexico who interact with the Chavez family, employment, job, work, hired by Cuca's husband, humor, Mexicano); 3. En nino abandonado (folk tale, the child abandoned by mother near the river, variation of La Llorona, children, women): 4. Dos ninas cuatas, gemelas (two twin girls who are abandoned at the church doorsteps, adopted by a kind family, later sought out by their biological mother who asks for forgiveness, they disown her and claim their stepmother is their only real mother, women, children); 5. La Virgen de Guadalupe (Part I, (legend, of the Virgin of Guadalupe, patroness of Mexico, good history).
Romney, 1971: Cruz Alvarez, b. 1898, Mesilla, NM. 1. Adivinanzas, two riddles (one, la mata de uva); 2. Refran, proverb (A Dios rogando y con el mazo dando, trust God but put your shoulder to the wheel, work hard).
Romney, 1971: Maria Abeyta de Vazquez, b. 1903, Dona Ana, NM. Good recording. 1. Milagro del Santo Nino de Atocha (miracle, relato, story, on way to Colorado she and family saw Indians in battle formation ready to attack, they prayed to Santo Nino de Atocha for protection and miraculously Indians did not see them and they survived, family built chapel in memory of santo, Native American Indian); 2. El origen del nombre de Las Cruces, New Mexico (place name, origin of the name of Las Cruces, replaced village of Dona Ana in importance); 3. La nina huerfanita que hizo sonreir a la Virgen (folk tale, in May, rich little girls at Mass take flowers to the Virgin Mary, poor orphan girl takes Virgen Mary pumpkin blossoms, other girls whisper gossip about her, orphan does not know how to pray and thinks the gossip is a prayer and repeats it, making the Virgin smile, women, religion, church, children) ; 4. Los indios atacaron Dona Ana, Las Cruces (local history, Native American Indian attack on Dona Ana, settlers drive them off, they kidnap beautiful young Juanita, hold her as a slave, years later she returns tired, thin, ugly, women, captive).
Romney, 1971: Cuca Chavez, b. 1921, Las Cruces, NM and Arizona. Good recording. 1. El santo de las botas (folk tale, for more farm land a rancher tears down a chapel used by his workers for worship, when the saint images are removed the workers take them home, priest warns rancher of the grave consequences of his deed, man tries to collect all the statues back, gets them all but the one with the boots, San Isidro, church, religion); 2. Los braceros (immigrants, farm laborers from Mexico who interact with the Chavez family, employment, job, work, hired by Cuca's husband, humor, Mexicano); 3. En nino abandonado (folk tale, the child abandoned by mother near the river, variation of La Llorona, children, women): 4. Dos ninas cuatas, gemelas (two twin girls who are abandoned at the church doorsteps, adopted by a kind family, later sought out by their biological mother who asks for forgiveness, they disown her and claim their stepmother is their only real mother, women, children); 5. La Virgen de Guadalupe (Part I, (legend, of the Virgin of Guadalupe, patroness of Mexico, good history).
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
- 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
cswrref@unm.edu
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
cswrref@unm.edu