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Contains 115 Results:
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 fellow...
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: Carlos...
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 boss...
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 American...
Dates:
1973
Jo-Ann Dehtaziani, Pauline Rivera, Zita Garcia, recorders, 1973
Item — Box: 1, CD: 23
Scope and Contents
Dehtaziani: Cristino Gallegos, Vallecitos, NM, Rio Arriba County. Los dos hermanos envidiosos (fiar recording, folk tale, the two envious brothers, song in story. Older brothers kill and bury the younger one in the forest, an Indian shows up with a singing flower which tells of their evil deed, murder, crime, death, muerte). Dehtaziani: Jerry Martinez, Ojo Caliente, NM. 1. Leyenda de la campana perdida (legend, hardships of villagers of Vallecitos collecting metal to cast their own...
Dates:
1973
Zita Garcia, Geneva Herrera, Gilbert D. Aragon, Anonymous, recorders, 1973
Item — Box: 1, CD: 24
Scope and Contents
Garcia: Aurora Thompson, b. 1903. La rana (animal fable, a frog and a hen, cackling and croaking). Herrera: Rafael Chavez, b. 1898, Veguita, NM. 1. Versos (poor recording, folk poetry, seventeen verses, many from valse chiquiado, chiquiao, dance game); 2. Canciones (fair recording, ballads, corridos, three - Reyes Ruiz; El lavaplatos, the dishwasher, labor, work, employment; El contrabando de El Paso, drugs, illegal). Herrera: Jose B. Torres, b. 1904, San Juan, NM. 1....
Dates:
1973
Debbie Sanchez, 1973
Item — Box: 1, CD: 25
Scope and Contents
Anonymous: Anonymous, Valencia County stories, Belen. (Local history, good recording, Maximiano Montano robs wine from garage of Placido Cordova, as thief is leaving, they meet and Montano clubs Cordova on the head, they go to court, etc. Also discussion of murder, death, muerte of Adolfo Sanchez, by Leandro Olguin, and a gun battle with Bone Torres, Bonifacio Torres, Miguel Peralta also in the fight, Sheriff Ignacio Aragon and Bonifacio Olguin). Sanchez: Ignacio Sanchez, b. 1903,...
Dates:
1973
Debbie Sanchez, 1973
Item — Box: 1, CD: 26
Scope and Contents
Sanchez: Lucinda Sanchez, b. 1913, Belen, NM. La luz azul en la noche (reminiscence, story of the blue light mystery, phenomenon, at night in distance, associated with lost treasure; story of bartender Jose Ramirez and lost boot; mentioned are La Joya, La Jara, Eugenio Maestas, Vicente Chavez, local humor, her husband adds details along the way). Sanchez: Adan Sanchez, b. 1918, Belen, NM. Los viejitos y la Muerte (folk tale, old couple arguing who wants to be the first to die,...
Dates:
1973
Debbie Sanchez, Jeanette Martinez, recorders, 1973, 1972
Item — Box: 1, CD: 27
Scope and Contents
Sanchez: Lucinda Sanchez, b. 1913, Belen, NM. Los que jugaban a la baraja todas las noches, (anecdote, a group has habit of playing cards every night until a monster comes and frightens them into stopping). Sanchez: Adan Sanchez, b. 1918, Belen, NM. Los de la politica (relato, story of Adan, asked and got father's permission to attend some political dances at Los Chavez, when he goes next time without asking permission he is caught in the lie, politics, respect for parent,...
Dates:
1973, 1972
Jeanette Martinez, Ricardo Maestas with Alex Trujillo, recorders, 1972
Item — Box: 1, CD: 28
Scope and Contents
Martinez, 1972: Adelaido Martinez, b. 1895, Medanales, NM. 1. Part II, Los tres consejos (folk tale); 2. Los tres hermanos (folk tale, three brother fighting over a hat, boots and a club left by their parents, a rogue suggests they have a race to see who would win it all, when they run off, he steals the objects and disappears). Maestas and Trujillo, 1973: Amadeo Lopez, b. 1898, Chamizal, NM, Taos County. 1. El compadre astronomo (anecdote, two men are out looking for their horses,...
Dates:
1972
Ricardo Maestas with Alex Trujillo, Tony Lucero, Floyd Herrera, recorders, 1972, 1973
Item — Box: 1, CD: 29
Scope and Contents
Maestas and Trujillo, 1973: Amadeo Lopez, b. 1898, Chamizal, NM. 1. Un viejito y sus gallinas (anecdote, when thief caught in chichen house, farmer asks who is there, thief says nobody but us chickens) ; 2. Una mujer en la corte (anecdote, when questioned in court woman answers no to all questions - is she married, a widow or single, well what are you then asked attorney, divorced she says, divorce, women); 3. Un viejito con su nieto (anecdote, grandfather nicknamed Jeta, buys grandaughter a...
Dates:
1972, 1973
Ricardo Maestas, Alex Trujillo, Tony Lucero, Floyd Herrera, recorders, 1973
Item — Box: 1, CD: 29
Scope and Contents
Maestas and Trujillo: Margarito Medina, b. 1894, Penasco, Penasco, NM. 1. Cuento de la india (reminiscence, father was Daniel Medina, mother Antonia Martinez, paternal grandmother Maria Griego; story of Native American Indian women and language, broken Spanish mixing up words about cow, calf and daughter); 2. Abuelos en Nuevo Mexico (tradition, meaning of La Llorona, La Chapatona, abuelo, grandfather figure, from Matachines dance, adults, discipline children, education); 3. Historia de Nuevo...
Dates:
1973
Floyd Herrera, Ricardo Otero, Claire Bulmer, Tomasita Montoya, recorders, 1973
Item — Box: 1, CD: 30
Scope and Contents
Herrera: Leandro Herrera, b. 1901, Chamita, NM. 1. Bertoldo (Part II, folk tale, more adventures); 2. El fallo de Salomon (Bible story, how King Solomon finds real mother of a baby, women); 3. Fabulas (short anecdotes dealing with Bertoldo and an animal fable is read); 4. Dime mi alma que has pensado (decima, poem of ten lines, songs, second decima, untitled, good to fair recording). Otero: Anonymous. 1. Adivinanzas (good recording, five riddles, on keys, a turtle, a burlap sack,...
Dates:
1973
Julietta Ortega, recorder, 1970
Item — Box: 1, CD: 31
Scope and Contents
Ortega: Mrs. Barbara Sanchez, b. 1913, Belen, NM. 1. Proverbs; 2. Chiste (see CD 1B). Ortega: Eduplio Ortega, b. 1916, Bernardo, NM. 1. Adivinanza (riddle, about what the moon said to the sun); 2. Relato (story of man herding cattle in mountains, near Bernardo, killed by lightning); 3. Pedro de Urdemalas (folk tale, trying to win the princess, angers the king when he sells the hogs, lied that lost the pigs in the mud, tail, ears); d. Los astronomos (the astronomers (folk tale,...
Dates:
1970
Julietta Ortega, recorder, 1970
Item — Box: 1, CD: 32
Scope and Contents
Ortega: Juan Miera, b. 1888, Socorro, NM. 1. Personal data (local history, San Antonio, Juan's grandfather sent his Dad to school in St. Louis, Missouri, education, but Dad did not like it there, so he took first wagon train back to San Antonio, in 1870s, trip from Socorro to San Antonio took all day, trip to St. Louis, Missouri, took six months, cattle, ranching, business); 2. Los tiempos de antes (local history, times have changed, in New Mexico, no alfalfa or cotton farming, back then drove...
Dates:
1970
Juliette Ortega, Gloria Gonzalez, Alfonso Chavez, Barbara Morton, recorders, 1970
Item — Box: 1, CD: 33
Scope and Contents
Ortega: Ramon Garcia, b. 1905, Bosque, NM. Poor recording. Don Cacahuate (anecdote, three more stories, about su lonche, el calendario and que venia cortado, nearly inaudible). Ortega: Jose Gonzalez, b. 1902, Socorro, NM. 1. Los capitanes de Pancho Villa (good recording, local story of Domingo Valles, releases three revolutionary captains of Pancho Villa captured in Columbus raid and put in Albuquerque jail, he takes them to his home in San Juan, then to Truth or Consequences, Hot...
Dates:
1970
Jaqueline Barth, Gloria Castillo, Harold Martinez, recorders, 1972, 1971
Item — Box: 1, CD: 34
Scope and Contents
Barth and Castillo, 1072: Jacobo Manual Bernal, b. 1892, Ranchos de Taos, NM. 1. El lenador y su companero envidioso (folk tale, a rich man, a poor man, woodman and the magic monkeys and the money in the forest); 2. La reina Regina mato una gallina (nursery rhyme, children, Queen Regina kills the fattest chicken out of compassion); 3. El dia que te cases (good to fair recording, popular end of the nineteenth century love song for marriage, wedding, here recited); 4. El aire viejo (folk tale, a...
Dates:
1972, 1971
Ruben Cobos, Harold Martinez, Lauro Guarderrama, Ida S. Carrillo, recorders, 1974, 1971
Item — Box: 1, CD: 35
Scope and Contents
Cobos, 1974: Juan Montano, b. 1903, Golden, NM. 1. La muerte de Billy the Kid (relato, Juan tells what his father told him that Elfego Baca had something to do with arrest of Billy before he was confined in the For Sumner jail); 2. La muerte de Marino Leyba (relato, story of folk hero Leyba of San Antonito, New Mexico, according to Juan's father, Leyba killed by a gang of thieves whom he had antagonized, murder, death, bandit, crime). Martinez, 1971: Miguelita Lopez, Albuquerque,...
Dates:
1974, 1971
Ruben Cobos, Unidentified communicant, Vi Gomez, recorders, 1958, 1970
Item — Box: 1, CD: 36
Scope and Contents
Cobos, 1958: Felicitas Montano, b. 1892, Tome, NM. Indita del Indio Victorio, Indita (indita, good to fair recording, fragment, versos from the song, Apache, Chief Victorio. Anonymous: Unidentified, 1970: Tranquilino Padilla, Albuquerque. Indita del Indio Victorio, song fragment, good recording. Tranquilino says his grandfather, Desiderio Trujillo, composed this indita. Cobos, 1970: Josie Lovato, Santo Domingo Pueblo. 1. Josie sings a short Indian song, chant from Santo...
Dates:
1958, 1970
Vi Gomez, Gail Ogawa, recorders, 1970
Item — Box: 1, CD: 37
Scope and Contents
Gomez: Juan Marquez, b. 1891, Las Vegas, NM. La Cenicientilla, Cinderella (Part II, folk tale). Gomez: Alfredo Benavidez, b. 1893, Socorro, NM. 1. Good recording, Domingo siete (folk tale, song in story, an old hunchback, his friend and the brujas in the woods, hunchback gets cured and rich, friend get the hump witch took from the other man, witch tale); 2. El hombre y la Muerte, (folk tale, while a man is eating his lunch, the Lord, the Devil and Death come asking for part of his...
Dates:
1970
Gail Ogawa, Leroy Aragon, John DeFlice, Anonymous, recorders, 1969, 1970
Item — Box: 1, CD: 38
Scope and Contents
Ogawa, 1970: Lito Emilio Baros, b. 1903, Bernalillo, NM. 1. Part II, El chiquiado, chiquiao, y Cruz Hurtado; 2. Cruz Hurtado, cazador, y el venadito (fair recording, mentira, tall tale, without his buckshot bullets, Cruz shoots with his flintlock - a deer with cherry pits, later he sees the deer, had grown a cherry tree like antlers); 3. Don Cacahuate (anecdote, in dark instead of a donkey harnesses a she - bear to carry his wood home); 4. Cruz Hurtado y su carro que volvio solo, (mentira, tall...
Dates:
1969, 1970
Anonymous recorder, 1970
Item — Box: 1, CD: 39
Scope and Contents
Anonymous: Anonymous, 1970: 1. El pajaro verde (Part II, a charcoal maker, the green bird and the man's daughters, related episodes, women); 2. Bertoldo (good recording, fragment, see CD 22). Anonymous: Federico Fructuoso Lara, b. 1899, San Patricio, NM, East of Ruidoso. 1. En la escuela, school (Spanish education in San Patricio, NM, 92 year old teacher was captive - cautivo of the Native American Indians, learned their customs, Federico recites a short verse with a moral, and a...
Dates:
1970
E. R. Romero, Debbie Martin, Jose H. Torres, recorders, 1968
Item — Box: 1, CD: 40
Scope and Contents
Romero: Aurelia Gurule, Placitas, NM. La hija de dulce (folk tale, almost inaudible). Romero: E.R. Romero, b. 1914, Cuba, NM. 1. Dichos, twelve examples (read from the notes of Amado Romero, the father, read by his son, E.R. Romero); 2. Adivinanza, one, 3. Versos (five quatrains read by E.R. Romero, taught to him by Amadeo Romero). Martin: Ana Guerra, Albuquerque, NM. 1. Rima (folk poetry, children, badly garbled rhyme, almost inaudible); 2. Mario y las tunas, se lo...
Dates:
1968
Jose H. Torres, David Thornberg, Joyce Montoya, Sammy Quintana, Theresa Valdez, recorders, 1968, 1969
Item — Box: 1, CD: 41
Scope and Contents
Torres, 1968: Ricardo Farfan, b. 1913, Bernalillo, NM. 1. Part II, Dimensiones (drafting instructions on drawing a square with three lines and other objects). 2. El cientifico que desaparecia gente (anecdote, man builds machine that makes people disappear, but for every ninety-nine people placed inside the machine, one Mexican is needed to keep the machine greased, Mexico, immigrant, labor, employment, job); 3. Adivinanza (riddle, what did the flea say to the bald man?). Torres,...
Dates:
1968, 1969