Kay Jarvis, recorder, 1969
File — Box: 2, CD: 222
Scope and Contents
Carolina Gonzalez, b. 1918, Mountainair, NM. (Fair recording) 1. Adivinanzas (five riddles, nut, guitar, mouth, donkey); 2. Entriega de bautismo (fair recording, baptism song, customs); 3. Adivinanzas (riddles).
Sam Archuleta, b. 1957, Mountainair, NM. (Poor recording) La Llorona (threw child in lake, cries in woods, saw a white Box in the trees).
Carolina Gonzalez, b. 1918, Mountainair, NM. 1. San Cristobal, St. Christopher (cuento about San Cristobal, at age of 12 years old, collected sea water, is carried away).
Mike Torres, b. 11958, Mountainair, NM. Cuento sobrenatural (supernatural story, a child is heard from the water, drowning, they realize it is not a human being and leave, ghost story).
Carolina Gonzalez, b. 1918, Mountainair, NM. 1. Verso de la Biblia (John 3:16, He who loves God has eternal life); 2. Dicho (three refrains or sayings, example, tell me who you are with and I will tell you who you are, others birds, men, poor recording, hard to hear speaker, children talking in background).
Horacio B. Garcia, b. 1917, Mountainair, NM. 1. Dichos (sayings, refrains, proverbs, recited one after the next, examples, its better to know than to have, he who is born ox - buey can never be a horse, others about God, blacksmith, fish, death, devil, flag, puddles); 2. Versos (light in window at your house, light of your eye, morning star, I went to your house, you made me dinner, tortilla, beans. When I wanted you, you didn't want me, now you want but I don't want, loneliness was mine, is yours); 3. Cuento de adivinanza (riddle, king acuses a man of doing wrong, puts him in jail, man's son tells king if he can't guess his riddle, to release his father, king agrees but cannot figure it out, answer - a white colt, horse with the leather saddle? made from his dead mother).
Candelaria Garcia, Mountainair, NM. Cuento de Juan Chilili (conversation, speaker asks recorder if he wants her to tell the story of Juan Chilili, everytime he responds, she says it’s wrong answer and asks again, she laughs and he's frustrated).
Horacio B. Garcia, b. 1917, Mountainair, NM. 1. Fabula (animal folk tale, crow has a piece of cheese in his mouth, fox tells him he sings beautifully, crow says ka ka, cheese falls, and fox eats it, vanity); 2. Fabula (folk tale, fox asks eagle if he likes grapes, he says yes, invites him to eat from a tree next morning, when eagle arrives fox has eaten them already, eagle invites fox to a party in the sky, lifts him with talons, drops him from very high, rhyming last line); 3. El padre y el ateo (ship is sinking in water, atheist can't pray but can swim and priest can pray but can't swim, priest drowns).
Candelaria Garcia, Mountainair, NM. La paloma y el lobo (cuento, animal story of her grandfather, she titles it, The dove and her pigeons. Wolf asks mother dove for one pigeon, she declines, he says if not, he will cut tree down and eat them all, so dove sacrifices a pigeon. Next time he come she tells him a refrain told to her by a bald eagle, the wolf tries to eat eagle but is outsmarted).
Horacio Garcia, b. 1917, Mountainair, NM. Adivinanzas (four riddles, answers, el buey pinto es, the ox is colored, ya ves, llaves, keys, church bell).
Candelaria Garcia, Mountainair, NM. Adivinanzas (two riddles, answers, piece of hanging meat and crying cat, offspring has no tail, beak, feet, chicken and egg).
Horacio Garcia, b. 1917, Mountainair, NM. Adivinanzas (what has four feet in the morning, two feet at mid day, three feet at night, answer, human being, morning is crawling infant in early life, mid day is midlife on two feet, night is old age, two feet plus carries a cane).
Sam Archuleta, b. 1957, Mountainair, NM. (Poor recording) La Llorona (threw child in lake, cries in woods, saw a white Box in the trees).
Carolina Gonzalez, b. 1918, Mountainair, NM. 1. San Cristobal, St. Christopher (cuento about San Cristobal, at age of 12 years old, collected sea water, is carried away).
Mike Torres, b. 11958, Mountainair, NM. Cuento sobrenatural (supernatural story, a child is heard from the water, drowning, they realize it is not a human being and leave, ghost story).
Carolina Gonzalez, b. 1918, Mountainair, NM. 1. Verso de la Biblia (John 3:16, He who loves God has eternal life); 2. Dicho (three refrains or sayings, example, tell me who you are with and I will tell you who you are, others birds, men, poor recording, hard to hear speaker, children talking in background).
Horacio B. Garcia, b. 1917, Mountainair, NM. 1. Dichos (sayings, refrains, proverbs, recited one after the next, examples, its better to know than to have, he who is born ox - buey can never be a horse, others about God, blacksmith, fish, death, devil, flag, puddles); 2. Versos (light in window at your house, light of your eye, morning star, I went to your house, you made me dinner, tortilla, beans. When I wanted you, you didn't want me, now you want but I don't want, loneliness was mine, is yours); 3. Cuento de adivinanza (riddle, king acuses a man of doing wrong, puts him in jail, man's son tells king if he can't guess his riddle, to release his father, king agrees but cannot figure it out, answer - a white colt, horse with the leather saddle? made from his dead mother).
Candelaria Garcia, Mountainair, NM. Cuento de Juan Chilili (conversation, speaker asks recorder if he wants her to tell the story of Juan Chilili, everytime he responds, she says it’s wrong answer and asks again, she laughs and he's frustrated).
Horacio B. Garcia, b. 1917, Mountainair, NM. 1. Fabula (animal folk tale, crow has a piece of cheese in his mouth, fox tells him he sings beautifully, crow says ka ka, cheese falls, and fox eats it, vanity); 2. Fabula (folk tale, fox asks eagle if he likes grapes, he says yes, invites him to eat from a tree next morning, when eagle arrives fox has eaten them already, eagle invites fox to a party in the sky, lifts him with talons, drops him from very high, rhyming last line); 3. El padre y el ateo (ship is sinking in water, atheist can't pray but can swim and priest can pray but can't swim, priest drowns).
Candelaria Garcia, Mountainair, NM. La paloma y el lobo (cuento, animal story of her grandfather, she titles it, The dove and her pigeons. Wolf asks mother dove for one pigeon, she declines, he says if not, he will cut tree down and eat them all, so dove sacrifices a pigeon. Next time he come she tells him a refrain told to her by a bald eagle, the wolf tries to eat eagle but is outsmarted).
Horacio Garcia, b. 1917, Mountainair, NM. Adivinanzas (four riddles, answers, el buey pinto es, the ox is colored, ya ves, llaves, keys, church bell).
Candelaria Garcia, Mountainair, NM. Adivinanzas (two riddles, answers, piece of hanging meat and crying cat, offspring has no tail, beak, feet, chicken and egg).
Horacio Garcia, b. 1917, Mountainair, NM. Adivinanzas (what has four feet in the morning, two feet at mid day, three feet at night, answer, human being, morning is crawling infant in early life, mid day is midlife on two feet, night is old age, two feet plus carries a cane).
Dates
- 1969
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