Philip Trujillo, recorder, 1970
Item — Box: 2, CD: 158
Scope and Contents
Vidal de Jesus Trujillo, b. 1887, Santa Cruz, NM, near el Sombrio. 1. Verso (Vidal introduces himself by reciting a four line quatrain, folk poetry); 2. Datos personales (personal data, he doesn not know much English language, knew people of many different religions, he is a Seventh Day Adventist, was a preacher, he organized various mutualista councils of the Sociedad de Proteccion Mutual, for men and women, in New Mexico and Colorado, El Rito, Vallecitos, etc. Talks about the sabbath, animal, plant, and mineral kingdoms, five elements, poem); 3. Adivinanza (Vidal has collected some four hundred riddles together with canticos in notebooks, gives one riddle, about the letter A); 4. Versos (one proverb and some quatrains composed to his four ex wives, and songs in Spanish to ex wives, women, marriage, wedding, folk poetry); 5. La cuarta casada (good recording, Vidal sings and recites a song dedicated to his fourth wife, Benigna Griego, mentions Toribio Manzanares and David Jaramillo, folk song); 6. La cuarta contratada (good recording, after Mr. Trujillo learned how to write out contracts he composed a song, 1956, for wife Colina by contract, who left him and went to Santa Fe, song); 7. Versos para entriega de novios (good recording, he is not a Catholic, but recites versos that he composed for a wedding on a certain occasion, folk poetry, commentary); 8. La novia india (Vidal went to defend a woman in court in Santa Fe, while there he fell in love with the woman's daughter, a Native American Indian, women, la novia de Santa Fe, mentions Jose Quintana, who in court against the woman, Vidal also says he has a mistress at El Mirador, a home for the aged in Alcalde, New Mexico); 9. Versos (four line strophes on the theme of love, folk poetry, see entriega above); 10. La Benigna (Mr. Trujillo tells how he almost killed three men on a certain occasion, one of his wives, Benigna, goes to town for her cousin's wedding, she dances with a certain David Jaramillo and makes Vidal jealous, he gets a gun and waits for them, a relative takes the gun away before tragedy happens); 11. Eclipses (various changes undergone by the moon and the sun, luna, sol, astronomy, etc. explains how eclipses take place, comments of the Independence of the United States, 1776, conversation); 12. Verso (talks about the stars and the moon and a love verso about the morning star, Las Tres Marias (Orion) and El Carro o Jumate (Big Dipper), he does not believe man has landed on the moon, lunar, folk poetry); 13. Vaqueros de Kansas (good recording, an old corrido about fifteen Mexican cowboys taking a herd of some five hundred head of cattle from Northern Mexico to Kansas, Mr. Vidal includes himself and a relative, Antonio Gonzalez, in the ballad. They end up in La Madera, New Mexico. Mexico, Mexicanos, ranching, mention of el Valle de Palomas, Los Pinos. Cobos says this is one of the most complete corridos in the collection).
Benigno Trujillo, b. 1886, Chimayo, NM. 1. anecdote (about a turtle and a hare, anecdote, almost inaudible); 2. La baraja (good to fair recording, an old folk song, playing cards game, each of the numbers on the cards are used symbolically in some religious connection, ace gives light, three nails on cross of Jesus, four thorns in crown of Jesus, etc.); 3. La bruja (a man lives with his wife, who is suspected of being a witch, one night the husband follows the wife, who goes out with other witches to feed on the body of a dead person, when the witch returns the man questions her antics, the woman turns the man into a dog, another woman turns the dog back into a man, witch story).
Benigno Trujillo, b. 1886, Chimayo, NM. 1. anecdote (about a turtle and a hare, anecdote, almost inaudible); 2. La baraja (good to fair recording, an old folk song, playing cards game, each of the numbers on the cards are used symbolically in some religious connection, ace gives light, three nails on cross of Jesus, four thorns in crown of Jesus, etc.); 3. La bruja (a man lives with his wife, who is suspected of being a witch, one night the husband follows the wife, who goes out with other witches to feed on the body of a dead person, when the witch returns the man questions her antics, the woman turns the man into a dog, another woman turns the dog back into a man, witch story).
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