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Box 2

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Contains 117 Results:

Ernie Orona, recorder, 1969

 File — Box: 2, CD: 209
Scope and Contents Nicanor Sanchez, b. 1911, La Constancia, NM. (Cobos notes for CD 209 in folder). 1. La merced de Tome (Tome Land Grant, water, flour mill, land there inherited from father, does not know how father acquired it, women had rights to land grants); 2. Instruccion publica (public school, education, father learned Spanish only, had little schooling, speaker went through fourth grade, they started teaching English in school after he stopped attending, he learned English at work, Bilingual education);...
Dates: 1969

Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1974

 File — Box: 2, CD: 210
Scope and Contents Epifanio Gutierrez, b. 1885, Cuba, NM. 1. Conversacion (El chueco, game, ball, teams, el topadero is a goal net game with a ball like hocky on field with sticks to hit leather ball, size of baseball, children, sports, first person to make a goal wins, leisure, children); 2. El canute (game, children, sports; hid stick, El Monero, a place past Chama; to bet on the game; rebote, new game, children, similar to handball, size of golf ball, bounced, win by bouncing ball against the wall, two people...
Dates: 1974

George Rivera, recorder, 1974

 File — Box: 2, CD: 211
Scope and Contents Marcos Maestas, b. 1917, Tucumcari, NM. (Fair recording). 1. Seleccion de Los Pastores (recited and song, Christmas play, Navidad,1940); 2. Corrido (song with guitar, composed by speaker in 1941, cantina, November day at 4 pm, my death in cold blood, drugstore, Renaldo Otero, friend, partner, knife fight, soldier, gun shot in heart, betrayal, brave men, famous writer of this song); 3. La mujer (fair recording, cancion, role of woman, song passed down to him by Avelino Rivera; women were to keep...
Dates: 1974

Anonymous, recorder, undated

 File — Box: 2, CD: 212
Scope and Contents Aurelio Candelaria, age 81, Los Griegos, NM. (Cobos notes in folder). Alabado, Adios, acompanamiento (good to fair recording, song at wake, velorio, funeral, deceased says goodbye to family, moving to next world, muerte, death, goodbye).

Rosaura Candelaria, age 75, Los Griegos, NM. Alabado a San Miguel (asks intercession of Saint Michael, Archangel, who cast Lucifer out of Heaven for God, good to fair recording).
Dates: undated

Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1974

 File — Box: 2, CD: 213
Scope and Contents Catherine Espinosa, b. 1910, Conejos, Colorado. (Good recording). 1. Rancho de Delgado (conversation in English, 15 miles south of Santa Fe, New Mexico, called Francisco Delgado Land Grant, Court of Private Land Claims case, Juana Lopez Grant, is above La Bajada and it runs into La Cienega Grant); 2. The Baca and Delgado families of Las Vegas (family history, Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert, Bacas date to seventeenth century; Delgados were originally from Santa Fe, 1776; Manuel Baca marries...
Dates: 1974

Darice Nebergall, recorder, 1970

 File — Box: 2, CD: 214
Scope and Contents Jim Mirabal, b. 1949, Tucumcari, NM. (Good recording). (For additonal notes on Leandro and the Penitentes, and for Aniceto and Viola see Cobos notes in folder). 1. New Mexican proverbs read by Ruben Cobos from a notebook loaned to him by Mr. Mirabal, student (hundreds of proverbs are organized by type, read one after another, adverbial comparison, phrases, sayings, refraines. Included are Humor: saints, cabeza, piojos, race horse, red clothing, secrets, cookies, mescal alcohol, motorcycle,...
Dates: 1970

Susan Herrera, recorder, 1973

 File — Box: 2, CD: 215
Scope and Contents Leandro Herrera, b. 1901, lived Chamita, NM. (Good to fair recording). (Cobos notes in folder). 1. Datos personales, born March 5th, 72 years old, in San Juan Pueblo, address); 2. Lectura (talk on Penitentes, services, Holy Week, Semana Santa, how to spend the week, imagine fate of Jesus, last hours. First recites a prayer, then sings a song); 3. Domingo (Sunday, recited, today consider life is brief, death certain, moment of death never known, Alabado, Mira, mira pecador, song, look sinner, in...
Dates: 1973

Susan Herrera, 1973, recorder, 1973

 File — Box: 2, CD: 216
Scope and Contents Leandro Herrera, b. 1901, Chamita, NM. 1. Datos personales (personal information, born March 5, address); 2. Decima, La esposa infiel (song, good recording, romance, humor, The Unfaithful Wife, he was with a woman and her husband came home, he is scared, jumps in a chest, they begin to eat dinner, he is in agony, they go to bed, in morning after husband leaves, he jumps out of chest, mounts horse, she offers herself to him, he declines and leaves); 3. Decima, Me rio en los habladores (good...
Dates: 1973

Maria Gallegos, Annabelle Martinez, recorders, 1973

 File — Box: 2, CD: 217
Scope and Contents Gallegos, 1973: Miguel Lopez, b. 1905, Sena, NM., in San Miguel County, (Good to fair recording). 1. Cancion, En la sombra de un arbol tupido (song, In the Shade of a Dense Tree, I was taken captive as a prisoner from under a tree); 2. Indita de Sixto Medina (song about man named Medina, who in 1905 is wounded and is killed near a lake, death, mourned by family members, they listed); 3. Indita de Pablo Garcia (song about death of Garcia, horse rider in 1921, mourned by parents, wife and son);...
Dates: 1973

Annabelle Martinez, Connie Gutierrez, recorders, 1973

 File — Box: 2, CD: 218
Scope and Contents Martinez, 1973: Nazario Quintana, b. 1886, Las Vegas, NM. (Poor recording). Vicente Silva de Las Vegas, NM. (Part II, conversation, difficult to make out, some phrses are privado, rancho, de la pena, si mata la mujer matamos a el, Vicente, color, robar, caballos, se caso, buena casa aqui, sacado la gente, mato la vaca, perrito, era buen hombre, buen casado, buen hijo, buen marido. There are bells in the background and banging. Speaker jumps from one remembered story to the next, coyote, owl,...
Dates: 1973

Daniel Ortega, recorder, 1966

 File — Box: 2, CD: 219
Scope and Contents Juan Sandoval, b. 1881, Chimayo, NM. (Fair to poor recording). 1. Alabanza, El alba (includes comments, The Dawn, requests listeners do not make fun of him, song celebrates the Nativity. Holy Virgin Mary, God, Three Wise Men, Christ, Navidad, Christmas. Cobos thanks him, admires his talent and memory.); 2. Milagros de San Antonio (song, romance, miracles of San Antonio, Dona Maria de Atocha, gloria, chapel, praying on knees at church, asking God for help, false testimony of a death, body of the...
Dates: 1966

Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1973

 File — Box: 2, CD: 220
Scope and Contents Edwin Berry, b. 1915, Tome, NM. (Good to fair recording). (Cobos notes in folder). Songs and comments. 1. Juegos de los pastores (counting game of shepherds, children, Berry's grandparents had 3,000 to 4,000 sheep, during game one had to paint little lines on floor, on beat of the song while singing it, song says, one and one and two are three, count, count and count twenty three. If at end of song player had twenty three lines they won, if not they lost. Second game is played same, is about a...
Dates: 1973

Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1973

 File — Box: 2, CD: 221
Scope and Contents Edwin Berry, b. 1915, Tome, NM. 1. Vivir bien (it doesn't matter what one eats. I took a picture of beautiful light of moon. I invite all to Tome); 2. Hacienda de Tome Dominguez (hacienda was between hill and river, Samuel Gutierrez lives there now. Memorial monument of soldiers in Tome. Dona Dolores, Manuel Otero, Manuel B. Otero, Jr. were buried in a crypt in cemetery, muerte, death. After 85 years they moved them from crypt to a grave, family had first engineer in town and the first nurse);...
Dates: 1973

Kay Jarvis, recorder, 1969

 File — Box: 2, CD: 222
Scope and Contents Carolina Gonzalez, b. 1918, Mountainair, NM. (Fair recording) 1. Adivinanzas (five riddles, nut, guitar, mouth, donkey); 2. Entriega de bautismo (fair recording, baptism song, customs); 3. Adivinanzas (riddles). Sam Archuleta, b. 1957, Mountainair, NM. (Poor recording) La Llorona (threw child in lake, cries in woods, saw a white Box in the trees). Carolina Gonzalez, b. 1918, Mountainair, NM. 1. San Cristobal, St. Christopher (cuento about San Cristobal, at age of 12...
Dates: 1969

Olivia Moya, recorder, 1971

 File — Box: 2, CD: 223
Scope and Contents Anonymous, male. (good recording) 1. Una mona en un nogal (rhyming story, animal fable, female monkey climbs a cactus, gets a green nut, throws it out, moral, easily defeated and hungry); 2. Arbol que crece torcido (rhyming cuento, tree that grows crooked, never straight, moral of life); 3. La que se fue, poema (recites a couple stanzas from two different poems by Manuel Maria Flores: Aucensia and Amistad, absence and friendship); 4. El Tio Grillo (story, cuento Uncle Cricket. A king in a...
Dates: 1971

Olivia Moya, recorder, 1971

 File — Box: 2, CD: 224
Scope and Contents Anonymous, male. (Poor to fair recording). 1. Dichos (proverbs, poor recording); 2. El del numero 14 (the number fourteen, man had 14 oxen, planted 14 measures of wheat, 14 bean plants, etc., is angered when pattern is disrupted); 3. La mosca (poor recording); 4. AneCDota (anecdote, an old man had a house with 100 windows, at each window was an old man, each man had 100 bags, in each bag was $100, speaker forgets the rest); 5. Adivinanza (riddle, something that is loud in field and silent in...
Dates: 1971

Anonymous, Ruben Cobos, recorders, 1972

 File — Box: 2, CD: 225
Scope and Contents Alejandro Flores, b. 1892, San Juan Pueblo, NM. (Fair to good recording). Adivinanza (riddle, something that is loud in field and silent in house; the axe, la hacha). Anonymous, female. Advinanza (riddle, the keys, ya ves, like llaves). Anonymous, male. Adivinaza (riddle, towel, toalla, says tu alla). Anonymous, female. Adivinanazas (religious riddle, soldiers request objects which represent parts of the rosary, the Hail Mary, Our Father)....
Dates: 1972