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Debra Britten, recorder, 1972

 Item — Box: 2, CD: 178

Scope and Contents

Luciano Baca, b. 1880, Belen, NM. 1. Cancion: Yo tenia un rancho (good to fair recording, fragment of song he composed about his ranch near Belen, New Mexico and Socorro County, there since he was fourteen years old); 2. Corrido de Heraclio Bernal (good to fair recording, Sinaloa, bandit, Mexico, reward for capture, crime, muerte, death); 3. Felipe Armijo y el caballo bronco, ranching, horses (relato, Felipe loosened the cinch on horse he wants Luciano to tame, break, Luciano survives and tames horse but is mad rest of life at Felipe); 4. Una incidencia (relato, man Leandro defends self from attack by another man, kills him, uses small gun had on him, claims self defense, not persecuted, mention of Julian Chavez, crime, murder, death); 5. Versos de chiquiao, chiquiado (fair recording, folk poetry, recites one verse, Luciano talks about old days, custom of family mourning the dead, not going out to dances, funeral, muerte, velorio); 6. Verso (folk poetry, local poet composes verse about a flower inside of a skull, muerte, death).

Mrs. Luciano Baca, Belen, NM. 1. Las luces (she and others saw lights near her home in Belen, New Mexico, investigate but never find anything; some brothers named Bachicha with tractors knock down walls of house on their property and find buried treasure); 2. Relato (during a time when the Baca family had a near fatal car accident, she sees a man in black on a black horse, who tells her where treasure is buried, her husband doesn't search for it); 3. Relato (while gathering wood on the Rio Puerco, she finds a large beautiful stone, goes to ask husband to help, when they return stone is gone, but her foot prints are there); 4. Tesoro enterrado (near her house, the locals ignore lights near a ditch, but Mexicanos working in area dig near the spot, disappear and the lights, witches).

Luciano Baca, b. 1880, Belen, NM. Datos personales, personal information about himself, and Mrs. Baca said she was born in Los Jarales, New Mexico, her father was Juan Trujillo and her mother Eulalia Romero, both of Los Jarales.

Anonymous male, Belen, NM. Los aztecas (arrival of the Spanish, Cortes, Aztecs, possibly read from a book, origin of term Veracruz).

Dates

  • 1972

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
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451