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Anonymous, recorder, Undated

 Item — Box: 3, CD: 277

Scope and Contents

Mr. Trujillo, Begins at 00:02 and ends at 00:20. Part II, cont. from CD 276. Story (good recording, the cat ate the king).
Scope and Contents Mr. Medina, Begins at 00:48 and ends at 10:00. 1. Chiste, Hombre con una barba muy larga (good recording, joke, long beard, humor); 2. Hombre se fue a confesar (fair recording, chiste, joke, humor, padre, priest, cabresto); 3. El tecolotito, tecolote, owl, recited (fair recording, poem, verses); 4. La historia de mal hijo (fair recording, story about a bad son, Maria Santisima, Virgin Mary, was standing at the foot of his bed); 5. Story (fair recording, he was renting a room from the aunt of his wife, another man who lived nearby, he came home drunk one day and asks his wife for a gun, drunk man puts the gun to Mr. Medina's head but he prayed and God saved him, crime, violence, drinking, faith).
Scope and Contents Juan de la Cruz, aka Gerardo Torres, age 76. Begins at 10:01 and ends at 57:23 1. Story (good recording, chiste, humor, a poor old man found some money that a crook had stolen, took it home to his wife, asina, wife tricks husband); 2. Adivinanza (good recording, riddle, chiste, burro); 3. Conversation (fair recording, interviewer and participant chatting); 4. Story, local history (fair recording, a Native American Indian man was always with the Mexicans, arrows, Apache Indians, battle, cannibalism, cooked a man); 5. Conversation (fair recording, between the interviewer and participant); 6. Chiste (Part I, good recording, joke, a man left home to find work, he meets a viejito, an old man on the way, princess, marriage, serpent with seven heads, cont. on CD 278).

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