Ruben Cobos, Ella Vigil, recorders, 1975
Item — Box: 6, CD: 568
Scope and Contents
Cobos: Repeat of CD 347. Nora Tafoya, b. 1946, Red Cliff, Colorado. Begins at 00:05 and ends at 10:04. 1. Conversacion (fair recording, with Dr. Cobos, personal information, she was born in New Mexico but lived in Colorado until she was 25 years old); 2. Dicho (fair recording, saying, poor man with money will spend it, like a loco, wisdom, advice); 3. Chiste (fair recording, joke, story, men who don't want to find work, won't find it, lazy men, advice, wisdom); 4. Cuento, la senora coja (fair recording, chiste, joke, two friends make a bet to see if one of them can get away with calling a woman a cripple, play on words, language, escoja); 5. Verso, tricki, tricki, tran (fair recording, verses, humor, children, rhyme); 6. Varios chistes (fair recording, jokes, stories, humor, dona Cebolla y don Cacahuate stories, they had only tortillas and were very hungry, he tells her to warm up the tortilla and so she puts it in her armpits and they burned; story of two sheepherders, borregueros, each thinks the other is an Anglo, so talk in English, the speaker knows English, Bilingual, language, codeswitching; story of lion and the hunter, a lion was following a hunter and the lion stops to pray with the man, the man asks him why he is praying and the lion says that he prays before he eats); 7. Cuento, story of three men injured, disabled during the war, battle, World War II, a Japanese, an Anglo American or German and a Mexican, Mexico, the men discuss how they lost their limbs, humor, funny); 8. Adivinanza (fair recording, riddle); 9. Dicho (fair recording, saying, women, cooking your own way, being an individual, every woman cooks in her own style); 10. Chiste (good recording, joke, story of a Mexican woman, took son to a doctor, who said he was mentally retarded, language, Spanish, codeswitching into English to say he was a little retarded, the mother misunderstood the diagnosis, language barrier, thought the doctor said boy is okay, just give him mentholatum, mentolate, in the tarde, afternoon. Cobos notes for Nora Tafoya in folder).
Vigil: Charles Kaber, b. 1900, San Luis, Colorado. Begins at 10:29 and ends at 35:54. 1. Brujas (poor recording, local history, personal experiences, witches, encounter near Questa, New Mexico, Des Montes, San Lorenzo fiesta time, the men went to a dance, Chiflo Bar, with balls of light, women, coyote and owls, he believed the animals to be witches; speaker does not know the La Llorona story, women); 2. Relato (poor recording, personal experience, in 1919 the speaker and a friend were working in Proctor, Colorado, going to Colordo to work (manitos), on a ranch, plowing fields with horses, in the Fall the speaker migrated to Denver and then Omaha; he and a friend, then met another man, Basque, from Spain, they roomed together, worked in Omaha packing house, visited Denver, Vadito, gives his account of buying, smoking marijuana, grifa, called Indian canine, for the Basque, was brought in from Mexico, excuse was to use it for rheumatism, paid $5 for a small bag, Basque convinced him and friend to try it, made them sleepy, never used it again; Kaber noted that after the 1918, World War I was over, many men stayed in Gemany, he as youth traveling around the country, he worked in Omaha, Nebraska, Chicago shipping yard, were broke in Cleveland but won some money playing pool, then went to New York and joined a group of men going to work in Germany, on ship coming over some got sick, not the Basque, contract three years, liked to be tourists more than workers, when returned went to New York and then to Jardin, Montana, near Billings, worked in sugar beet farms. Cobos notes for Kaber in folder).
Vigil: Charles Kaber, b. 1900, San Luis, Colorado. Begins at 10:29 and ends at 35:54. 1. Brujas (poor recording, local history, personal experiences, witches, encounter near Questa, New Mexico, Des Montes, San Lorenzo fiesta time, the men went to a dance, Chiflo Bar, with balls of light, women, coyote and owls, he believed the animals to be witches; speaker does not know the La Llorona story, women); 2. Relato (poor recording, personal experience, in 1919 the speaker and a friend were working in Proctor, Colorado, going to Colordo to work (manitos), on a ranch, plowing fields with horses, in the Fall the speaker migrated to Denver and then Omaha; he and a friend, then met another man, Basque, from Spain, they roomed together, worked in Omaha packing house, visited Denver, Vadito, gives his account of buying, smoking marijuana, grifa, called Indian canine, for the Basque, was brought in from Mexico, excuse was to use it for rheumatism, paid $5 for a small bag, Basque convinced him and friend to try it, made them sleepy, never used it again; Kaber noted that after the 1918, World War I was over, many men stayed in Gemany, he as youth traveling around the country, he worked in Omaha, Nebraska, Chicago shipping yard, were broke in Cleveland but won some money playing pool, then went to New York and joined a group of men going to work in Germany, on ship coming over some got sick, not the Basque, contract three years, liked to be tourists more than workers, when returned went to New York and then to Jardin, Montana, near Billings, worked in sugar beet farms. Cobos notes for Kaber in folder).
Dates
- 1975
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