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Contains 115 Results:
Harold T. Martinez, recorder, 1972-1973
Item — Box: 1, CD: 1A
Scope and Contents
Martinez: Patricio Chacon, born 1893, from Cebolla, NM, probably near Tierra Amarilla, Rio Arriba County. Good recording. 1. El caballo que hablaba (folk tale, set near Tierra Amarilla, a bet and sale of horse at Jose Martinez bar, continued at Thomas Burns bar in Parkview, seller was a ventriloquist); 2. La esposa traviesa (folk tale, man, wife, and cow on trip to California, women); 3. Las brujas que bailaban (witch story, set at Manuel Gomez farm, in La Puente, New Mexico, unknown...
Dates:
1972-1973
Harold T. Martinez, recorder, 1972-1973
Item — Box: 1, CD: 1B
Scope and Contents
Martinez: Rosinaldo Montoya and Juanita Montoya, Truchas, NM. Prayer and song (nearly unintelligible). Martinez: Pedro Trujillo, Chimayo, NM. Mexican folk song, humor. Relacion, El casamiento del huitlacoche (seems to be reading as a poem, marriage, Mexico, poor recording). Martinez: Lupita Naranjo, Chimayo, NM. Adivinanzas (riddles, she and a man enchange twelve advinanzas or puzzle questions and give corresponding solutions or answers, el oro, la naranja, la media,...
Dates:
1972-1973
Harold T. Martinez, recorder, 1971-1973
Item — Box: 1, CD: 2
Scope and Contents
Martinez: Contains duplicate of 1B minus Barbara Sanchez and Eduplio Ortega.
Dates:
1971-1973
Georgia Ayala, Antonio B. Rael, recorders, 1971-1972
Item — Box: 1, CD: 3
Scope and Contents
Ayala: Mrs. Carlos Trujillo, b. 1898, Ocate, NM, Northwest of Wagon Mound. 1. Verso; 2. Adivinanza; 3. Chiste (folk poetry, riddle, game for children); 4. El perico compro lena (anecdote, parrot is beaten by master for buying too much wood, cat is kicked, was the reason the same buying wood?); 5. La concencia (anecdote, a boy asks a neighbor woman for apples and sees her underwear when she climbs the apple tree, women). Ayala: Carlos Lucero, b. 1895, Dulce, NM. 1. Verso (folk...
Dates:
1971-1972
Antonio B. Rael, Della Turner, recorders, 1971-1972
Item — Box: 1, CD: 4
Scope and Contents
Rael: Mrs. Evangelina M. Rael, b. 1932, Taos, NM. 1. Chiste de Jose Maria (anecdote, Jose and compadre collect a debt, Jose translates, humor); 2. San Antonio (anecdote, a pachuco asks St. Anthony for a job, church, faith, religion, variant of pocho one by Petra Padilla, CD 1); 3. Chiste del ice cream (anecdote, two Mexicans in a Denver restaurant order ice cream, but it is too cold for them, want it warned up); 4. Adivinanza (riddle and solution); 5. Refran (one dicho, proverb); 6. Chiste,...
Dates:
1971-1972
Della Turner, recorder, 1971-1972
Item — Box: 1, CD: 5
Scope and Contents
Turner: Mrs. Frances Jaramillo (Part II, El viejo que se caso con una jovencita, women). Turner: Mrs. Frances Jaramillo, b. 1905, La Ladera, NM. Los dos conejos - (folk story, animal fable, moral for children, greedy villain rabbit drowns in the well trying to get all the cheese). Turner: Mrs. Cristina Rubi, b. 1913, Belen, NM. 1. La hormiguita (folk tale, agglutinate, about a baby ant whose leg is broken by a snowflake, the ant complains to the snow, the wind and the...
Dates:
1971-1972
Della Turner, Edumenio Gurule, recorders, 1971-1972
Item — Box: 1, CD: 6
Scope and Contents
Turner: Jorge Pascual Garcia, b. 1907, Peralta, NM. Good recording. 1. Part II, Los cuatro hermanos; 2. El indio abogado (folk tale, a man buys eggs on credit, the creditor later asks for higher price, an Indian explains an ear of roasted corn is worth only an ear of roasted corn, as can't be planted, Native American Indian, natural lawyer, law, values, logic). Gurule: Manuel Vigil y Campos, b. 1888, Albuquerque, NM. 1. Don Cacahuate (anecdote, another adventure, barely audible...
Dates:
1971-1972
Edumenio Gurule, recorder, 1972
Item — Box: 1, CD: 7
Scope and Contents
Gurule: Napoleon Trujillo, b. 1890, Bernalillo, NM. Adivinanza (El ruido de un carro, riddle about an automobile, poor recording). Gurule: Aurelia Trujillo, b. 1901, Bernalillo, NM. 1. Versos (folk poetry, giving good advice); 2. Ojos Negros (fair recording, cancion, folk poetry, recited, look at me but don't let the world know we love each other). Gurule: Napoleon Trujillo, b. 1890, Bernalillo, NM. Verso, Jesus y un cuerno (anecdote, a chiste from the negrito poet,...
Dates:
1972
Ruben Cobos, 1972
Item — Box: 1, CD: 8
Scope and Contents
Cobos: Anonymous. Good recording. 1. Adivinanzas (four riddles, que es la cebolla, la escoba, etc.); 2. Un hombre a quien le dieron trabajo (folk tale, the king gives work to a frail young man who turns out to be a girl, and the prince falls in love with her, women, employment, job); 3. Silbido (good recording, whisling, humming a tune); 4. Oraciones (three traditional family and Penitente prayers); 5. El licor (declamation, narrative, on the virtues of liquor, drinking); 6. Versos de los...
Dates:
1972
Gilbert Garcia, recorder, 1973
Item — Box: 1, CD: 9
Scope and Contents
Garcia: Nestor B. Sanchez, b. 1890, Belen, NM. 1. Encuentro con un oso (mentira, tall tale, Nestor meets a bear that almost killed him, put his hand into animal's mouth and choked it); 2. El tren de los Sanchez (relato, wagon train, commerce, trade, trail, great grandfather Vicente Sanchez and his brother Gumesindo Sanchez ran wagons from Valencia, New Mexico east to Kansas and west to Prescott, Arizona, buffalo hunts, customs, life and work on the wagon road). Garcia: Gilbert...
Dates:
1973
Pamela Davis, Eugene Romero, Pete Atencio, recorders, 1971-1972
Item — Box: 1, CD: 10
Scope and Contents
Davis: Ramon Chavez, b. 1921, Albuquerque, NM. Oye, oye (anecdote, man hears voice behind him as he rides horse back to the ranch). Davis: Mary Vargas, b. 1923, Albuquerque, NM. Las tres mudas (anecdote, the three mutes, three ranch girls and three men who are unsuitable to date them, women). Davis: Mary Gallegos, b. 1905, Los Lunas, NM. 1. La Llorona (ghost story, used by parents to scare and discipline their children); 2. Feasts (tells of fiestas, procession for the...
Dates:
1971-1972
Elicia Duran, Robert J. Gonzalez, recorders, 1970-1971
Item — Box: 1, CD: 11
Scope and Contents
Duran: Natividad Duran, b. 1906, San Jose, NM, County unknown. Good recording. 1. Los esposos y el burro (folk tale, while going down the road with their donkey, people suggest he ride or another that she ride or that both ride, moral of story, cannot please everyone, women); 2. El hombre del asilo (anecdote, his solution for a car that loses its wheel, automobile); 3. Un hombre que sabia la lengua de sus animales (folk tale, like the Arabian Nights, a man who understood animal languages,...
Dates:
1970-1971
Tony D. Ortiz, Tomas Martinez, recorders, 1970-1971
Item — Box: 1, CD: 12
Scope and Contents
Ortiz: Eliverio Ortiz, b. 1914, Nambe, NM. 1. Juan y Pedro de Urdemalas (folk tale, brothers seek fortune, Juan gets rich, Pedro learns to speak with the animals and marries a princess, women); 2. Carmelita y Rafaelito (folk tale, New Mexico version of Hansel and Gretel). Ortiz: Arturo Romero, b. 1916, Nambe, NM. Los astronomos (folk tale, old woman teaches them to forecast weather by watching her mule, women); 2. Pedro de Urdemalas y los marranos (folk tale, similar tale of the...
Dates:
1970-1971
Tomas Martinez, recorder, 1970-1971
Item — Box: 1, CD: 13
Scope and Contents
Martinez: Deluvina Velazquez, b. 1896, Park View, Tierra Amarilla, NM (Los Ojos, Park View, NM). 1. El pobre del pino (folk tale, man who lives in a tree, steals covering over a dove in its nest, she turns out to be a princess under spell of evil witch, and related tales, bruja, women); 2. La cenicienta golosa (folk tale, variation, the lascivious Cinderella, most complete version Cobos had found, related episodes, women); 3. Los siete hijos (Los bueycitos, folk tale, girl and seven...
Dates:
1970-1971
Manuel H. Sandoval, recorder, 1971
Item — Box: 1, CD: 14
Scope and Contents
Sandoval: Anonymous, Taos, NM. Fair recording. 1. Un hombre y el pescado (folk tale, man catches a mermaid which grants him three riches in exchange for his son, adventures of the son); 2. Dos esposos que no sabian que harian (good recording, folk tale, couple plans if one dies the other will be buried beside the other, death, muerte, bural, incomplete). Sandoval: Anonymous, Taos, NM. Costumbres, Los Penitentes, Taos (poor recording, various accounts, organization, rites, then...
Dates:
1971
Robert J. Gonzalez, recorder, 1970-1971
Item — Box: 1, CD: 15
Scope and Contents
Gonzalez: Jacobo M. Bernal, Jake Bernal, b. 1893, Taos, NM. Good recording. 1. El aire viejo (folk tale, story of the old north wind, his beautiful imprisoned wife, and a man who helps her escape, story Jacobo learned from his grandmother, Manuelita Trujillo, women ); 2. El grillo negro (folk tale, the black cricket answers the king's riddle, wins the princess); 3. El matrimonio y la muerte (folk tale, a couple is discussing which should die first, overhearing them a rascal knocks at the...
Dates:
1970-1971
Robert J. Gonzalez, Sammy J. Quintana, Bryan Romney, recorders, 1970
Item — Box: 1, CD: 16
Scope and Contents
Gonzalez: Rafaelita Gonzalez, b. 1916, El Prado, NM, Taos County. Good recording. 1. Tres hermanos (tres bolitas, folk tale, two brothers kill younger one, a talking flower grows on his grave, exposing the murder, death, crime); 2. El viejito y la viejita (relato, old couple falls into a pit, old man likes what he feels); 3. El dicho, proverb ( don't put off for tomorow what can do today); 4. El cuento del pobre y del rico (folk tale, poor man hunts two rabbits to serve for dinner for his...
Dates:
1970
Bryan Romney, Sylvia Patterson, recorders, 1970, 1973
Item — Box: 1, CD: 17
Scope and Contents
Romney, 1970: Cruz Alvarez, b. 1898, La Union, NM, near Mesilla. Good recording.1. La Fiesta Panamericana, September 16; 2. General Pat Hurley y los mojados, Mexicanos, (anecdote, Hurley campaigning for U.S. Senator vs. Dennis Chavez, gives a talk in La Mesilla to Mexican immigrants, wetbacks, who do not understand any English, Mexico); 3. Emeregildo Guerra, captain (local history, Captain Guerra led militia of La Mesilla citizens against raiding Apaches, Indian scalps, customs of end of...
Dates:
1970, 1973
Sylvia Patterson, Linda Ortega, Margaret Davidson, recorders, 1973
Item — Box: 1, CD: 18
Scope and Contents
Patterson: Bennie Valles, b. 1921, Veguita, NM. La abuelita y su nieto (folk tale, the North Wind, grandmother lives with grandson, poor, wind blows away last of their corn meal, North Wind gives boy gifts, one a club to beat the man who has stolen his other gifts, a tablecloth and sheep.) Ortega: Matilde Luchi Ortega, b. 1918, Las Vegas, NM. 1. El muchacho ignorante (folk tale, story of boy, princess and his mother who tries to poison him, instead kills his donkey, crows and...
Dates:
1973
Hipolito Martinez, Judy Raby, recorders
Item — Box: 1, CD: 19
Scope and Contents
Martinez: Anonymous, poor recording, Penitente service in a Northern New Mexican village, April, 1971, customs, religion. Raby: Anonymous informant, Old Town Albuquerque, NM. 1. Cuento, folk tale, inaudible; 2. El pajaro verde (poor recording, folk tale, young man, jealous persons and a king, man accomplishes impossible tasks assigned by king and spites his opponents); 3. Juan Lanas (poor recording, folk tale, princess who does not laugh, king, man who tried to win bet to marry...
Dates:
1944-1974
Hipolito Martinez, Tony Ortiz, Mary Ellen Torres, recorders, 1971
Item — Box: 1, CD: 20
Scope and Contents
Martinez: Anonymous. 1. Un chiste (good recording, anecdote, a man, his wife, her new born baby, his mare and her new colt, and a camping trip, women); 2. Adivinanzas, poor recording, riddle about trigo, wheat; 3. Los tres hijos (good recording, folk tale, three brothers out to seek their fortunes, a witch and many adventures). Martinez: Elisa Hart, b. 1898, Ranchos de Taos, NM. 1. Los que hallaron un tesoro (treasure story, discovery of a treasure and convincing a retarded...
Dates:
1971
Harold B. Tafoya, recorder, 1971
Item — Box: 1, CD: 21A
Scope and Contents
Tafoya: Miguel Aragon, b. 1905, Las Vegas, NM. 1. Un cibolo se traga a un cibolero (tall tale, folk tale, Hispanic hunters, man swallowed by huge buffalo, survives a year by cooking with his small flint some meat inside the giant animal, a year later hunters return and from within he calls them out to save him, like whale story) ; 2. El cazador de patos (folk tale, bends barrel of gun to get all the ducks in the pond, hunting, Cleto Santillana, cazador de patos). Tafoya: Ofelia...
Dates:
1971
Harold B. Tafoya, recorder, 1971
Item — Box: 1, CD: 21B
Scope and Contents
Tafoya: Carmelita Espinosa, b. 1907, Del Norte, CO, Colorado. 1. Como se hace ojo (tradition, (children, mal de ojo, mal ojo, come from others giving undo attention to child besides his parents); 2. Como se cura el mal de ojo (tradition, several remedies for the person who caused the illness to cure the child, mal ojo); 3. Lo que sucede si no se cura el ojo (if not cured promptly the kinds of harm that will come to the child, curandera, curandero, medicine, health). Tafoya:...
Dates:
1971
Harold B. Martinez, recorder, 1971
Item — Box: 1, CD: 21C
Scope and Contents
Tafoya: Julio Duran, b. 1934, Albuquerque, NM. 1. El hijo borracho (folk tale, young man get a ride with a stranger, satan, on horse back, man prays and is thrown from horse and repents) ; 2. El buen carpintero (folk tale, his three wishes, getting into heaven); 3. Los tres compadres (folk tale, three friends are attacked by Native American Indians and try to hide, one is killed, second and third come out stupidly and reveal himself and are killed, too); 4. El patron lepero (folk tale, a...
Dates:
1971
Ymelda Sanchez, Gilbert D. Aragon, Jo-Ann V. Dehtaziani, recorders, 1973
Item — Box: 1, CD: 22
Scope and Contents
Sanchez: Leroy Baca, b. 1972, Las Vegas, NM. Adivinanzas (good recording, riddle about a cactus and rope, an adult word game, agglutinate, language, and a saying about going out dancing and being taken advantage of by a shameless person, dance, youth, courting, dating, dances). Sanchez: Elena M. de Sanchez, b. 1903, Tome, NM. 1. El perico y los turistas (anecdote, American tourist buys a parrot from a Mexican, Mexico, saying the parrot speaks English, fate of parrot after...
Dates:
1973