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Ana Orona de Peetz, Manuel Romero, Gilbert Sedillo, Jose Luis Gonzalez, recorders, 1974

 Item — Box: 2, CD: 131

Scope and Contents

Orona de Peetz, 1974: Maria Melinda Orona, b. 1922, La Constancia, NM. 1. Cuento sobrenatural (supernatural story, the ghost of a deceased woman is haunting her surviving relatives, one night the daughter in law of the dead woman goes into a room and faints when she hears her voice, she tells her relatives the woman asked them to pray a novena for her, ghost story, muerte, death); 2. Cuento sobrenatural (a young man and his aunt kid each other saying that whoever dies first will come and tickle the other's feet, one night the young man wakes up terrified, his feet are being tickled, his aunt died the evening before, supernatural story, muerte, death); 3. Don Fabian (good recording, folk song, children); 4. La soltera bonita (a single young lady, envy of the town, one day starts getting ill, loses her appetite, face becomes disfigured, develops fainting spells, dies, her relatives are certain that she is bewitched, witches); 5. Las que hacen pan (two women are bending over their adobe ovens, putting in their loaves, a young boy comes along and asks the first what she is baking, some bread she says kindly, he asks the other, stones she says sarcastically, he says stones they shall be, when they open their ovens the first has beautiful bread, the other ugle stones, child was el Santo Nino, Christ Child, miracle); 6. Oracion (recites a prayer to obtain a good death, muerte); 7. Oracion (recites a prayer to St. Joseph); 8. Oracion (prayer for all needs, for the family); 9. Oracion (prayer); 10. Oracion (prayer for our children).

Romero and Sedillo, 1974: Anonymous. Los tiempos de los pachucos (discusses the heyday of the Pachuco movement, cites nicknames of leaders, names of pachuco women, and tells how the pachuchos lived, dressed and behaved, Chicanos, Cabos lauds wealth of Pachuco words in this discussion, language).

Gonzalez, 1974: Gloria Velazquez, b. 1946, Albuquerque, NM. 1. Los dos compadres (a rich man tells his poor friend to load some bags full of ashes on to his mule and go sell them in town, the poor man believes his friend and tries to sell his ashes, people laugh at him but the poor man becomes resourceful and begins to make money, the rich friend becomes envious, he pays with his life for his greed, folk tale, muerte); 2. El que vendio su firma (a man is so poor that he is forced to make a pact with the devil to give Satan the first thing that comes to meet him as he gets home; the devil gives the man all the money he wants, when the man gets home it is his young son that first comes out to meet him, and whom the devil takes; related stories of son going to hell to retrieve his father's signature and get his soul back, folk tale).

Dates

  • 1974

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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