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Anonymous, recorder, Undated

 Item — Box: 3, CD: 270

Scope and Contents

Miss Jaramillo. Begins at 00:01 and ends at 01:06. 1. Part II cont. Las mujeres hizo Dios (good recording, dicho, continued from CD 269, women, colors, guerra); 2. Dicho, La gorra (good recording, dicho, saying, queso, rancho, beso, sombrero); 3. Dicho, la continuacion de las mujeres (good recording, dicho, saying, triguenas, zapatero); 4. Riddle, murial filicipal (good recording).
Scope and Contents Eliseo Montoya, begins at 1:07 and ends at 18:15. 1. Cancion, Los pajarillos triguellos (song, mundo enganoso, fair recording, guitar, music, pajaro); 2. Story, El cuerpo del abuelo (good recording, anciano, mejillas, escuela, abuelo, Isla de Santo Domingo, cuento de hadas, fairytale, una familia rica, esclavos, slaves, African Americans, Blacks, trip to Havana, Cuba, orphan).
Scope and Contents Mrs. Valdez. Begins at 18:21 and ends at 35:09 1. Chiste (good recording, joke, from many years ago, three rocks, mass, caballos, pine tree, medallion, brujas, witches); 2. Chiste de una bruja (good recording, joke, cabello lindo, bruja, paloma, queen, king, dove, burn the witch, paloma regresaba todas las mananas); 3. Chiste del espejo (good recording, fairy tale, mirror, story, king, he married a second time, similar to Snow White, the queen wants to be prettiest in the land, she orders the princess be killed, brujas, they go looking for the girl, truje used as traje, traer, pescar used to mean hunt or capture, poison apple, enano, glass coffin, they threw her coffin in the river, a king and prince found it, took it to a church, the prince kissed her cheek, she wakes up, the prince marries the girl); 4. Adivinanza (good recording, riddle, stars); 5. Chiste, Guillermo y su perro (good recording, story, Guillermo had a dog that followed him everywhere, he went to the river and threw a stick in for the dog to fetch, the dog was named Soloman, metaphor, trust, truth is sacred); 6. Riddle (good recording, adivinanza, la contesta); 7. Chsite (good recording, joke, manzana, snake was going to kill a sleeping man. The apple fell on his head and woke him up); 8. Adivinanza (good recording, riddle, en que se parece el pobre al rosario?); 9. Chiste (good recording, joke, boy is ten years old, the priest offers the boy an apple if he can tell him where God is, the boy replies tell me where God is not, same joke is told on CD 266); 10. Poem (good recording, moscas, miel, honey, flies, cake).
Scope and Contents Lucas Velasquez, Ojo Caliente, starts at 35:10 and ends at 46:49. 1. Local history (good recording, story of old man and his adventures, named Tigro A. Gonzales, true story from Ojo Caliente, always searching for minerals, New Mexico Territory, mine, mining, knew an Anglo American man, he had an adobe house, treasure, bars of gold, iron, old man got sick, died, he told the men where the treasure was buried but they could not find it); 2. Cuento, El Caballo, from 1938, (good recording, story, the Great Depression, there were no jobs in Ojo Caliente or anywhere in the U.S.A., proyecto de la florestas de las mercedes, forest, lumber on the land grants, fifteen to twenty families moved to Ojo Caliente to work on the project, no automobiles, just horse drawn wagons, arroyos, Northern New Mexico, speaker sings, offers advice to the rich).
Scope and Contents Mr. Montoya. Begins at 46:51 and ends at 48:33. Song, Coparita Colordiaba (poor recording, guitar).

Dates

  • Undated

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