Olivia Moya, recorder, 1971
File — Box: 2, CD: 223
Scope and Contents
Anonymous, male. (good recording) 1. Una mona en un nogal (rhyming story, animal fable, female monkey climbs a cactus, gets a green nut, throws it out, moral, easily defeated and hungry); 2. Arbol que crece torcido (rhyming cuento, tree that grows crooked, never straight, moral of life); 3. La que se fue, poema (recites a couple stanzas from two different poems by Manuel Maria Flores: Aucensia and Amistad, absence and friendship); 4. El Tio Grillo (story, cuento Uncle Cricket. A king in a castle lost queen's ring, hired fortune teller who failed to find it, so hired a man called Cricket, had three days time, equipment necessary and access to castle. Cricket says a rhyme to each one - the cook, server and the sweeper - and they admit stealing ring, but he does not turn them in. The princess knows, wants three questions in exchange for keeping quiet. She tries to outsmart Cricket, but he answers all three correctly); 5. Dichos (many sayings, refraines, recited back to back, Things left to God have good endings. Trees leaves don't last forever. The worth of many cries of the poor and one cry of the happy. Laugh and world laughs with you, cry and cry alone. Before you marry, look at what you're doing. Two heads are better than one, even if one head is of a lamb. There is something bad in best people and something good in worst person. All things are like walls, they have two sides. Worth more to have one bird in your hand than 100 flying. Coward dies many times, brave man only once. Others, behavior, death, God, saints, keep your word, trust, little by little, closed mouth, comparison with animals, lover, what is hidden, fear); 6. Dos compadres (Gurule, a shepherd, and Juan Dominguez, of San Luis. Dominguez buys a spotted male mule, one day it is lost, so he looked for him among the sheep); 7. Los nietos (a man's grandson gets married and they move to California and take with them a $1,000 and some dollars, move back to New Mexico after being mistreated); 8. Adivinanzas (three riddles, how many sheep did the child have?); 9. El padrino (joke about a godparent, forgets name of the godson, baptism, confirmation, religion, faith); 10. Una mujer puerca (joke about a dirty woman, pig women, had son who was to be baptised by friends, woman removes her clothes to make natillas, friends enter, and she falls into the New Mexican dessert); 11. El indio Chirina (Native American Indian Jose and father Pedro Chirina, go to propose marriage to a Native American woman, Maria Santana, recites rhyming verse, ask for engagement, women, wedding custom); 12. El sordo (chiste, joke, a lost man asks help of a deaf farmer, who replies with humourous answers).
Anonymous, male. 1. AneCDota (anecdote, a man looks for a deer in mountains to donate, decides to make chaps out of leather of deer and contribute meat instead, hunting); 2. Los sordos (chiste, joke about charging friends for gifts or meals, lack of hospitality, shame); 3. Don Cacahuate (humor, story, he steals a pig, gets arrested and is put in jail); 4. Adivinanzas (two riddles, about key, watermelon).
Anonymous, male. (Fair recording, speaker and recorder are laughing). 1. Pedro de Urdemalas (humor, story, character from medieval Spanish legends is a trickster); 2. Pedro de Urdemalas; 3. Bertoldo, el flojo (humourous story, Bertolo, lazy man does not want to get up from bed).
Anonymous, male. 1. AneCDota (anecdote, a man looks for a deer in mountains to donate, decides to make chaps out of leather of deer and contribute meat instead, hunting); 2. Los sordos (chiste, joke about charging friends for gifts or meals, lack of hospitality, shame); 3. Don Cacahuate (humor, story, he steals a pig, gets arrested and is put in jail); 4. Adivinanzas (two riddles, about key, watermelon).
Anonymous, male. (Fair recording, speaker and recorder are laughing). 1. Pedro de Urdemalas (humor, story, character from medieval Spanish legends is a trickster); 2. Pedro de Urdemalas; 3. Bertoldo, el flojo (humourous story, Bertolo, lazy man does not want to get up from bed).
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
- 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
cswrref@unm.edu
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
cswrref@unm.edu