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Contains 115 Results:

Harold B. Tafoya, Jesus Castro, recorders, 1970

 Item — Box: 1, CD: 67
Scope and Contents Tafoya: Pablo A. Gonzalez, b. 1898, San Isidro, NM. Adivinanzas (good recording, two riddles, one about a rat). Tafoya: Lazaro Sandoval, b. 1909, San Isidro, NM. Adivinanzas (five riddles, one about the ant). Tafoya: Magdalena Sandoval, b. 1900, San Isidro, NM. Verso (folk poetry, one quatrain about love for Geraldo). Tafoya: Mercedes Delgado, b. 1926, San Isidro, NM. Verso (good recording, folk poetry, one quatrain about chiqueque and tu abuela,...
Dates: 1970

Jesus Castro, recorder, 1970

 Item — Box: 1, CD: 68
Scope and Contents Moises Beserra, b. 1904, Mexico (Albuquerque, NM). Informes personales (this recording becomes difficult to hear, local history, personal information, working in various jobs in the Midwest and Southwest, employment, job, work, discrimination against Mexican Americans, how General Obregon lost an arm, Mexican Revolution, Mexican women in jail, prison - las tiocanches, General Felipe Angeles).
Dates: 1970

Georgia Ayala, Sylvia Ortiz, recorders, 1971

 Item — Box: 1, CD: 69
Scope and Contents Ayala: Candelaria Romero, b. 1882, Pena Blanca, NM. Good recording. 1. Una inundacion (where local history, when she is age 15, ca. 1897 an arroyo flash flood washes away fifteen houses, families left homeless); Aparicion de un angel, (relato, during a trip to Cuba, New Mexico, she and son see an angel fly by them); 3. Canto a los angeles del cielo (hymn, himno, religious melody in verse, sung to the tune of Indita de San Luis); 4. Verso (folk poetry, one verse on the beauty of nature and love,...
Dates: 1971

Linda Witt, Bert de Lara, Frank Snell, Elizardo Romero, recorders, 1971

 Item — Box: 1, CD: 70
Scope and Contents Witt: Marcella Larragoite, b. 1950, Albuquerque. NM. 1. El solterito, little soltero, recited (folk song, man compares his life, as married man and as a bachelor, women); 2. Rimas (four verses, folk poetry, versos, gallinero, gallinas); 3. Adivinanzas, (riddles, three, la boca, la semana santa, unas y el piojo); 4. La Llorona, (ghost story, after a woman's husband dies, she cannot support her seven children and drowns them, heard crying in the river and acequia for them, family, women)....
Dates: 1971

David Ortega, recorder, 1969

 Item — Box: 1, CD: 71
Scope and Contents Ortega: David Ortega, Chimayo, NM. Introduction to a formal seminar on witchcraft, brujas, participants included Leonora S. Curtin, Henry Martinez, Sam Chavez and others. In English. Women. Ortega: Henry Martinez, Chimayo, NM. Lo que acontecio a don Henry Martinez el el llano Abeyta (witch story, Henry Martinez is irrigating field, acequia, on the Llano de Abeyta, balls of fire, fireballs darting up and down as if engaged in a game, another fire ball forces him to hide in a...
Dates: 1969

Margarita Sexson, Jose Rael, recorders, 1969, 1970, 1971

 Item — Box: 1, CD: 72
Scope and Contents Ortega, 1969: Cleofas Vigil, San Cristobal, NM. Fair recording. A Penitente looks at the life of Jesus (Part 2). Martinez, 1970: Sofia Martinez, b. 1907, El Guique, NM. Good to fair recording. 1. El gato (folk tale, orphan boy had a cat with magical powers who pounces and eats an evil king who had turned into a mouse, children); 2. Canciones (folk songs, in a very pleasant voice Sofia sings La linda rosa, El mundo enganoso, El vaquero en Kansas, El piojo y la liendre, Brinca la...
Dates: 1969, 1970, 1971

Jose Rael, recorder, 1971

 Item — Box: 1, CD: 73
Scope and Contents Rael: Jose Rael, b. 1941, Picuris Pueblo, NM. 1. Paloma Blanca y Juan Pelotero, folk tale, Part 2, cont.; 2. El Buen guitarrista, folk tale, (a snake at a music store turns into a princess, which the good guitarist marries and they have many adventures).
Dates: 1971

Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1971

 Item — Box: 1, CD: 74
Scope and Contents Cobos: Jacobo Manuel Bernal, b. 1892, Ranchos de Taos. NM. Folk games, good recording. (Mr. Bernal, Maggie Trujillo, Juan Tenorio and Mr. Pacheco demonstrate Hispanic games of New Mexico, la canasta, target and arrows shot through bottom of bucket; el chueco, local hockey; el canute, El Mulato, canute stick; while playing canute, Mrs. Trujillo sings an indita - Aqui viene los canuteros. Discussion in English. Children, leisure). Cobos: Meliton Trujillo, b. 1905, El Ranchito, NM....
Dates: 1971

Ruben Cobos, Ida S. Carrillo, recorders, 1971

 Item — Box: 1, CD: 75
Scope and Contents Cobos: Anita Thomas, b. 1907, Santa Fe, NM. Good recording. Traditional folk dances of New Mexico, Part II (origin of New Mexican dances, quotations from American journalists). Carrillo: Vidal Jesus Trujillo, b. 1885, Santa Cruz, NM. Fair recording. 1. Autobiografia (Part III, biographical information in verse, relato; gives lyrics to Entriega de novios, wedding, marriage); 2. Part I, Atole con cuchara, 1. He used to eat atole with a spoon made from a cow horn; 2. song; 3....
Dates: 1971

Ida S. Carrillo, Juliette Ortega, Nancy Martinez, recorders, 1970, 1971, 1972

 Item — Box: 1, CD: 76
Scope and Contents Carrillo, 1971: Vidal Jesus Trujillo, b. 1885, Santa Cruz, NM. Good to fair recording. Atole con cuchara (Part II of same story, partly repeated, followed by three short hymns, several short sermons, including why man must replace the lion as king of the beasts.) Carillo: Dora Medina, Santa Cruz, NM. Pipis y gallos (verses for children, hand game). Ortega, 1970: Beltran Griego, b. 1896, La Joya, NM. 1. El hombre que se perdio en un revilion, anecdote (a man is caught in...
Dates: 1970, 1971, 1972

Nancy Martinez, recorder, 1972

 Item — Box: 1, CD: 77
Scope and Contents Martinez: Sofia Martinez, b. 1909, El Guique, NM. 1. La ranita, folk tale (Part II, another story of the frog, this time as a princess, in a contest she embroiders the best piece, later she becomes human, marries and lives happily ever after, women); 2. La paloma sola (folk tale, variation of los siete bueycitos, girl is turned into a dove by an old witch, women); Los tres ninos, folk tale (the evil king, the queen, the three sons and a witch, women, family, children); 4. El aguila de plata,...
Dates: 1972

Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1970

 Item — Box: 1, CD: 78
Scope and Contents Cobos: Emiliana Q. Segura, b. 1895, Cerro, NM. 1. Sudarios, explicacion (a prayer for the soul, muerte, velorio, death, funeral, notes); 2. Sudario, rezado,(a prayer for the soul of Juan Duran), 3. Salve, (a prayer for the life or good health of an individual); 4. Ofrecimiento (prayer that is included in the rosary, explained); 5. Ofrecimiento, variant of Ofrecimiento, a folk prayer; 6. El bendito (Cobos calls this a hymn, probably a prayer, recited, good recording); 7. Como se persigna,...
Dates: 1970

Julio Duran, recorder, 1971

 Item — Box: 1, CD: 78A
Scope and Contents Maria Alicia Duran, b. 1931, Las Vegas, NM. 1. El muchacho que nunca decia Si Dios es servido, poor health, sickness, curandera; 2. La reina encantada; 3. Rueda Bolitas; 4. Tres cuentos del padre solitario (El caballo muerto, El ojito de agua, A ver que se mueve). Juan Griego, b. 1924, Dixon, NM. Very good recording by Juan Griego. 1. La india bruja, witch, Isleta Pueblo; 2. La Llorona, andando, gritando por el rio, Dixon; 3. La bola de lumbre, balls of light, supernational, brujas,...
Dates: 1971

Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1968

 Item — Box: 1, CD: 79
Scope and Contents Cobos: Mateo Padilla, b. 1881, Tecolote, NM. 1. Cobos is reading from notebook of Mateo Padilla, good recordings, recited. Alabados (Part l, religious folk hymns, Penitentes, Semana Santa, Holy Week and others.). Cobos note - April 1968, Padilla now in Martineztown. (Ven pecador y veras, O que grande dicha, Si eres soldado de Cristo, Dios te salvae, luna hermosa, La encomendacion del alma, Venir, pecadores, El miercoles de ceniza, Ayudame, buen Jesus, Ayudar almas queridas, O Guadalupe dichosa,...
Dates: 1968

Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1968

 Item — Box: 1, CD: 80
Scope and Contents Cobos: Mateo Padilla, b. 1881, Tecolote, NM. Alabados, good recording. (Part II, these beautiful songs used in devotions, Holy Week, Semana Santa, wakes, velorios, etc. Continuation Ay, Jesus del alma mia, Por ser mi divina luz, Alabemos todos, Venir, venir a las bodas, Adios acompanamiento, Salve refulgente aurora, O virgen sagrada, Pues que naciste, Al nino recien nacido, Mira, mira, pecador, Celebre todo cristiano, Dividido el corazon, Pecador, si a Dios no buscas, Jesucristo se ha perdido,...
Dates: 1968

Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1968

 Item — Box: 1, CD: 81
Scope and Contents Cobos: Mateo Padilla, b. 1881, Tecolote, NM. 1. Alabados (Parte III, conclusion of religious folk hymns, good recording) continuation Esta memoria me valga, Considerada alma perdida, Salgan, Salgan, Que dolor tan grande, Alma, no estes tan dormido, Dios te salve, luna hermosa; 2. Indita de San Luis (good recording, folk hymn, read by Cobos from Mateo Padilla notebook, when sung the indita has a refrain that sounds like a Native American Indian chant).
Dates: 1968

Gilbert Carrillo, recorder

 Item — Box: 1, CD: 82
Scope and Contents Carrillo: Mary Marquez, b. 1931, La Joya, NM. 1. El nino con dientes (folk tale, man finds baby in a field, child is picked up and talks, has teeth); 2. El viaje del borracho (folk tale, a drunkard walking home from bar sees a monster one night behind him, acclaims the names of the Holy Family and the monster disappears, drinking, Jesus, Mary, Joseph, religion, church). Carrillo: Carolina Carrillo, b. 1921, La Joya, NM. Good recording. Un joven que queria casarse, marriage (folk...
Dates: 1944-1974

Gilbert Carrillo, Carlos Martinez, recorder, 1971, 1972

 Item — Box: 1, CD: 83
Scope and Contents Carrillo, 1971: Arthur Leon Campa, b. 1905, Denver, Colorado. Part II, Aspectos de la cultura (lecture, read, matanza, hog slaughter, food, carne, requeson, cheese, curandero, curandera, healing, herbs, home remedies, children, childbirth, partera, baptism, entriega de bautismo, education practices, traditions, el bocadito, buffalo hunting, hunters, traders, weddings, marriage). Martinez, 1972: Andres Martinez, b. 1904, Santa Fe, NM. 1. Dichos y conversacion (family history and two...
Dates: 1971, 1972

Carlos Martinez, recorder, 1972

 Item — Box: 1, CD: 84
Scope and Contents Martinez: Tranquilino Lujan, b. 1892, Pecos, NM. 1. Brujas, de que las hay, las hay (witch story, discussion of problem is in catching witches, mentions an arblario Don Antonio Arroyo, story of Filomena a witch flying to El Paso, witches cannot threaten people named Juan, los Juanes, perfumes and witches, role of the devil and witches, La Llorona); 2. Adivinanza (riddle, What can a shepherd see that God cannot? A shepherd can see another shepherd, but God cannot see another God); 3. Los doce...
Dates: 1972

Ruben Cobos, Bryan Romney, recorders, 1971

 Item — Box: 1, CD: 85
Scope and Contents Cobos, 1971: Anonymous. Buffalo hunting story (good recording, a Native American Indian girl tells how an evil spirit comes along among a party of buffalo hunters and disrupts the hunt, in English, women). Romney, 1971: Cruz Alvarez, b. 1898, Mesilla, NM. 1. Adivinanzas, two riddles (one, la mata de uva); 2. Refran, proverb (A Dios rogando y con el mazo dando, trust God but put your shoulder to the wheel, work hard). Romney, 1971: Maria Abeyta de Vazquez, b. 1903, Dona...
Dates: 1971

Bryan Romney, Linda Witt, Vi Gomez, recorders, 1971

 Item — Box: 1, CD: 86
Scope and Contents Romney: Cuca Chavez, b. 1921, Las Cruces, NM. La Virgen de Guadalupe (Part II, story of the Virgin of Guadalupe). Witt: Arthur Leon Campa, b. 1905, Denver, Colorado. Good recording. 1. El santo de palo (folk tale, story told to Campa by Martin Lopez, of Socorro, popular santo figure stolen from village of Luis Lopez, New Mexico, priest offers reward for information, what the town simpleton says); 2. El coyote malo (relato, story told to Campa by Silvestere Moya of La Joya, New...
Dates: 1971

Vi Gomez, recorder, 1971

 Item — Box: 1, CD: 87
Scope and Contents Gomez: Cleotilde Sedillo. B. 1895, Los Angeles, California. Sonando mi guitarrita (Part II) son captures the last horse, which is El Caballo de Siete Colores, the horse of seven colors, and son is rewarded by the king.) Gomez: Juan Marquez, b. 1892, Las Vegas, NM. 1. Un rey con tres hijos, folk tale, Flavio el guitarrista, (the adventures of the guitar playing, itinerant merchant prince); 2. Un hombre que tenia tres hijos y una hija (Part I, folk tale, a man who had three sons and...
Dates: 1971

Vi Gomez, recorder, 1971

 Item — Box: 1, CD: 88
Scope and Contents Juan Marquez, b. 1892, Las Vegas, NM. 1. Part II, Un hombre que tenia tres hijos y una hija (folk tale, sons bring back a healing apple, a telescope and a magic carpet, the carpet takes them to her, the apple cures her illness, etc, other episodes).
Dates: 1971

Arlene Cinelli, Robert L. Martinez, George Chavez, recorders, 1969, 1971, 1972

 Item — Box: 1, CD: 89
Scope and Contents Cinelli, 1971: Sam Baca, Albuquerque, NM. Good recording. 1. Experiencia con un joso, oso (anecdote, man is out hunting, says to himself God in front and I follow, when he sees a bear behind him he says I in front and God behind me); 2. Rezo, prayer (to Jesus, Mary and Joseph, good example for New Mexico); 3. El rico que no queria morir (anecdote, the rich man who does not want to die, tries many tricks to avoid Death, fails, muerte, death). Cenelli, 1971: Max Roybal, b. 1906,...
Dates: 1969, 1971, 1972

George Chavez, recorder, 1972

 Item — Box: 1, CD: 90
Scope and Contents Carlos Garcia, b. 1893, Cheyenne, Wyoming. Conversacion (Part II, reminiscence, Mora area, arrival of first automobile, car in Mora, arrival of railroad in Las Vegas, farming and barter economy, donkies and oxen, liquor, recipe for mula, white mule moonshine during Prohibition, traditional house construction, architecture, great flood in Mora area,1921, furniture making, tanning, cobbling shoes, fiestas, dance types, weddings, marriage, fiesta de Santiago, corrido de gallo, rooster pull, verses...
Dates: 1972