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Bryan Romney, Linda Witt, Vi Gomez, recorders, 1971

 Item — Box: 1, CD: 86

Scope and Contents

Romney: Cuca Chavez, b. 1921, Las Cruces, NM. La Virgen de Guadalupe (Part II, story of the Virgin of Guadalupe).

Witt: Arthur Leon Campa, b. 1905, Denver, Colorado. Good recording. 1. El santo de palo (folk tale, story told to Campa by Martin Lopez, of Socorro, popular santo figure stolen from village of Luis Lopez, New Mexico, priest offers reward for information, what the town simpleton says); 2. El coyote malo (relato, story told to Campa by Silvestere Moya of La Joya, New Mexico; in mid February 1889, while Teofilo Lucero is riding his palomino horse to Bolinguin, near La Joya, a bad coyote, with huge teeth and fire coming from its eyes and mouth, devil, bruja, chases them until they are exausted and fall into the mud, read); 3. El tesoro del caballo sin cabeza (treasure story told to Campa by Dolores Carrillo of San Antonio, New Mexico, two men follow a black headless horse into an abandoned building, a voice said to dig there for treasure, they quarrel and disappear forever, sometimes at night people hear their voices as they argue); 4. El cerro de Tome (explanatory tale, story told to Campa by Juan Mirabal of Peralta, New Mexico, one night a man on the way by Tome Hill hears a siren or voice singing down in the bottom of a pit, later it is learned whoever looks down the pit is turned to stone, the spirits of these people are the music heard from the pit, ghosts); 5. Un cuento de brujas (witch story, told to Campa by Rumaldita Baca of Old Albuquerque, a witch named Dona Maria makes a woman sick, her husband has an arbulario come help her, he beats her and puts crosses made of pins in all the doorway exists, so witch Maria becomes an owl and flys out chimney, wife gets better, curandero); 6. Un entierro (treasure story, told to Campa by Rumaldita Baca, of Old Albuquerque, of Juan Armijo of Albuquerque, about 1845, a trader, merchant, on trip to Mexico, stopped to rest at El Sabino, South of Belen, when Native American Indians appeared and planned to attack, before so he buried some gold and silver in ground and escapes, later cannot find the burial site because rain storm washed away the markers); 7. Otro entierro (another burial, treasure story, Don Crespin, from a little village near El Paso, trades in illegal contraband, when lawmen come for him, he hides his money in his house and he and wife flea to a distant town, within two days on the road, band of Native American Indians murder them); 8. El indio mejicano (relato, the Native American Indians came often to trade at the ranch of a Mexican at La Mesilla, and most often a good looking Indian comes to see and trade with the man, one day the Indians are on the war path and shoot and kill this Indian, turns out the Mexican man was the father of this Indian person, mestizo, inter cultural relations).

Gomez: Cleotilde Sedillo, b. 1895, Los Angeles, California. 1. Don Juan Caraba, folk tale (after death of their parents, two brothers abandon their little brother Juan Caraba to care for himself, with the aid of his cat, he convinces the king his is rich and gets into the king's palace); 2. Juan Flojo, folk tale (Lazy John, sleeping under a tree, God comes and asked him what he is doing, says he is waiting for an apple to fall from the tree, to lazy to climb, other episodes of God and Juan); 3. Sonando mi guitarra, folk tale (Part I, good to fair recording, strumming my guitar, on orders of the king, a young man sings to keep awake as horses enter nightly into the king's garden, he captures the horses but lets them go).

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
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Albuquerque NM 87131
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