Box 2
Container
Contains 117 Results:
George Rivera, recorder, 1974
Item — Box: 2, CD: 111
Scope and Contents
Mela Gallegos, b. 1921, Mexico, now Tucumcari, NM. 1. La perra blanca (a duke marries the youngest of three sisters, he goes off to war, when the duchess gives birth to twins, jealous servants substituted babies with puppies, a faithful white female dog and an old woman help the twins reunite with their parents, folk tale); 2. Dona Guarachito (a poor friend compadre steals and butchers his rich friend's cow, rich man hids his maid Dona Guarachito in Box that is taken to his friend's house, she...
Dates:
1974
Emma Sousa, Mary Lou Arguelles, Della Turner, recorders, 1969, 1970, 1971
Item — Box: 2, CD: 112
Scope and Contents
Sousa, 1969: Aurelia Gurule, b. 1893, Placitas, NM. Las tres cosas maravillosas (a tale taken from the Arabian knights, king maries girl, one of three sisters, when her babies comes, jealous sisters substitute puppy for first child and cat for second, other episodes, tree that sang, bird that talked, golden water, unfinished, folk tale; see more of Aurelia' stories in CDs 110 and 147). Arguelles, 1970: Fernando Arguelles, b. 1918, Mexico, now Albuquerque, NM. 1. El numero 41...
Dates:
1969, 1970, 1971
Della Turner, recorder, 1971
Item — Box: 2, CD: 113
Scope and Contents
Edwin Berry, b. 1915, Tome, NM. Good recording. 1. Dicho (folk saying, how sad are the dead that have no life, muerte, death); 2. Las Posadas (portrays Joseph and Mary's search for lodging in Bethlehem, innkeepers all turn the couple down, afraid of cut throats and theives, Christmas pageant, Navidad); 3. Cantos de Los Pastores (Berry sings, shepherd plays, various songs from the shepherd's play Los Pastores, shepherds render homage to the new born Christ, folk songs); 4. Berry discusses drama...
Dates:
1971
Jesus Castro, Vicente Martinez and Patricia Sanchez, recorders, 1971
Item — Box: 2, CD: 114
Scope and Contents
Castro: Moises Bessera, b. 1904, Albuquerque, NM. 1. El diablo en el baile (relato, Rafael is invited to a dance, a male goat enters the dance hall and frightens those present, Rafael invokes the holy names of Jesus and Mary and finds himself in an open field, faith, miracle, religion, devil); 2. Vida en el campo (relato, life on a large farm, ranch, when he was a boy, Native American Indians with their families passed through their land and worked for Mr. Bessera cutting weeds; worked for...
Dates:
1971
Vicente Martinez and Patricia Sanchez, Mark Shinkle, recorders, 1969, 1971
Item — Box: 2, CD: 115
Scope and Contents
Martinez, 1971: Porfirio Padilla, b. 1902, Los Padillas, NM. 1. Conversacion (continued conversation, adds comments on how times have changed); 2. La aparencia (compares two donkeys to two persons, people are unappreciative of what you do for them, conversation); 3. La esposa difunta (speaks about his mother, recalls his dead wife with whom he lived for 35 years, his wife's things bring him tender memories, marriage, love, conversation); 4. la vecindad (a neighbor wants to buy his property for...
Dates:
1969, 1971
Mark Shinkle, recorder, 1968
Item — Box: 2, CD: 116
Scope and Contents
Ramon Garcia, b. 1897, Manzano, NM. 1. La manta (Part II, folk tale); 2. Cuando el hombre tiene el derecho de vengarse (relato, a father is killed in front of his son, the son goes to court with a gun just in case the murderer is freed, the son kills the murderer as the judge finds the killer not guilty, crime, murder); 3. Un pariente muerto por los indios (two Native American Indians, of Acoma Pueblo, are put in jail by Nash Garcia, a New Mexico State Police officer, are angry and when they...
Dates:
1968
Frank Lucero, recorder, 1969
Item — Box: 2, CD: 117
Scope and Contents
Teresa Lucero, b. 1897, Albuquerque, NM. Cuento de brujas (a Mexican national offers to cure a bewitched woman by converting himself into a dog, witch story, see CD 120). Delfino Martinez, b. 1900, Grants, NM. Cuento de brujas en Manzano, New Mexico. (just before a very ill lady dies a pigeon comes in the room and flies all around, a spot on woman's back also disappears, witch story, in Manzano, in English) Teresa Lucero, b. 1897, Albuquerque, NM. 1. El piojo y la...
Dates:
1969
Frank Lucero, Della Turner, Louise Waxman, recorders, 1969, 1971
Item — Box: 2, CD: 118
Scope and Contents
Lucero, 1969: Margarita Mascarenas Jaramillo, b. 1909, Raton, NM. Also given as Margarita Jaramillo de Mascarenas Cancion del canute (Parte II, describes the game of canute). Lucero, 1969: Frank Lucero, b. 1944, Folsom, NM. Rimas infantiles, recites children nursey rhymes and games, explained how they are played, among them Torta culeca, Puno punete and Esconde el dedo). Turner, 1971: Edwin Berry, b. 1915, Tome, NM. Good recording. Cantos de Los Pastores (cont. he sings...
Dates:
1969, 1971
Frank Lucero, recorder, 1969
Item — Box: 2, CD: 119
Scope and Contents
Delfino Martinez, b. 1900, Grants, NM. 1. El padrastro malo, Part II (continued from CD 118, stepson cattleman meets a stranger, turns out to be his stepfather); 2. Manofashico (a simple man is cutting a tree branch while sitting on the wrong side of the branch, another man tells him he will fall, the simple man does fall and runs after the man who gave him the advice, thinking he was God, anecdote); 3. El diablo se aparece a un hombre (a man goes to a dance one evening, on his way to the dance...
Dates:
1969
Ralph Montez, recorder, 1970
Item — Box: 2, CD: 120
Scope and Contents
Marina Vigil, b. 1910, La Puebla, NM, now in Cundiyo, NM. La suegra que era bruja (a Mexican laborer, called a surumato, who offers to cure a friend's sick wife, she who has been bewitched, Mexican turns himself into a dog to fight a female dog who has bewitched the sick wife, he wins out. Woman gets better and her husband is happy. Husband goes to see his mother, whose face is all bitten, as she is the female dog or the witch. His mother was source of the illness, gets angry and refuses to...
Dates:
1970
Ralph Montez, recorder, 1970
Item — Box: 2, CD: 121
Scope and Contents
Mrs. Andres Viera, Raquel Viera, b. 1920, Albuquerque, NM. 1. El muneco de brea, (Part II, a man places a dummy made of tar, tar baby, to snare the animal eating his vegetables, a rabbit gets caught but frees himself, the rabbit then is about to trick a fox, conclusion, folk tale); 2. El coyote y el conejo (folk tale, outstanding incidents said Cobos, coyote and the cheese - moon, the school where the rabbit has some children studying, fire, etc.); 3. La mujer floja (a husband cannot get his...
Dates:
1970
Joseph Rael, recorder, 1974
Item — Box: 2, CD: 122
Scope and Contents
Joseph Rael, b. 1935, Picuris Pueblo, NM. See also CD 135. Interview (October 26, 1974, Joseph interviews his father, Arturo Rael, who is a member of the Picuris Pueblo Indian tribe, interview, to learn about Picuris Native American Indian culture, in art father used symbols of objects, animals, birds, he tried to harmonize his existence with environment, nature, he told folk tales today like ancestors told for generations, share experiences of forefathers. Joseph says when his family first...
Dates:
1974
Sister Renee Marie, recorder, 1971
Item — Box: 2, CD: 123
Scope and Contents
Edwin Berry, b. 1915, Tome, NM. 1. Indita del Rio Grande (poor recording, the 1884 flood in Tome and other villages on the Rio Grande, ballad); 2. Indita de Jose Luis (good to fair recording, Berry sings a fragment of the ballad of Jose Luis Lovato a famous musician in late nineteenth century, Valencia, County, NM, the sung part has to do with the death and burial of the famous musician, ballad); Good recording here after. 3. En una arenosa playa (Berry sings a few strophes of this old...
Dates:
1971
Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1973
Item — Box: 2, CD: 124
Scope and Contents
Anonymous Mexican group, Albuquerque, NM, 1973. 1. Commercial recordings, good quality. Las tipicas posadas mexicanas (an indoor presentation of Las Posadas, by a group going house to house, Christmas pageant, Navidad, Cobos said excellent recording, Mexico); 2. La pinata (same group, at the nineth house in the posada procession, goes indoors for celebration, singing versos, quatrains used in the game of pinata are sung here, children, game). Anonymous group. Good recording. 1....
Dates:
1973
Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1972
Item — Box: 2, CD: 125
Scope and Contents
Tito Modesto Rivera, b. 1899, Rainesville, NM. 1. Datos personales (states his father's name was Juan Ventura Rivera and his mother's Higinia Baca, that she died when he was eight years old, Tito went to first three grades in school, teachers were Spanish speaking, learned to read English from store catalogs listing various names of objects, personal information, language, education, at Grainsby, New Mexico, near Mora); 2. Trabajos (jobs had as a young man, cooked for cowboys, vaqueros, tells...
Dates:
1972
Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1972
Item — Box: 2, CD: 126
Scope and Contents
Tito Modesto Rivera, b. 1899, Rainesville, NM. 1. Los blancos (the Anglo Americans, neighbors reported him putting up too many trailers, mobile homes on his property and that the commissioners made him remove one he getting for his son, he so mad wanted to sue commissioners for calling him into criminal court); 2. Las leyes (laws are made by the people and not by one individual, felt discriminated against when buying some land, asked if it was zoned for mobile homes, trailer park, owners put...
Dates:
1972
Maria M. Zamora, recorder, 1971
Item — Box: 2, CD: 127
Scope and Contents
Juan Marquez, b. 1892, Las Vegas, NM. 1. El hombre que quedo solo, La florecita magica (folk tale, couple make a pact if other dies first, living one will build a mausoleum to watch over mate until their death, wife dies first, man keeps promise, in tomb man kills a mouse that is then brought back to life by its mate that has a magic flower, man gets the flower and restores life to his wife, related episodes showing ungratefulness of wife, women, muerte, funeral, burial); 2. La gorrita magica...
Dates:
1971
Betty Sandoval, recorder, 1972
Item — Box: 2, CD: 128
Scope and Contents
Isabel Martinez, b. 1925, Chimayo, NM. 1. Bertoldo y el rey (Bertoldo asks the king which is lighter, daylight or milk, folk tale); 2. Dos amigos en la borrega (two friends out herding sheep make fires, each goes to his part of the camp, one sees a cat that talks to him twice, the frightened man leaves the fires looking for his companion, his friend has turned himself into a cat, supernatural story, witches); 3. Cuento de brujas (people going to a dance in Truchas see two large fires on the way...
Dates:
1972
Dennis Sanchez, Francis Banuelos, recorders, 1971, 1974
Item — Box: 2, CD: 129
Scope and Contents
Sanchez, 1974: Jose T. Fernandez, b. 1915, Arroyo Seco, NM. 1. El cura y el jovencito (a boy feels he has sinned for eating weiners on a Friday and confesses his sin, the priest asks him to bring him a load of wood as penance, when the boy returns with a load of sawdust, the boy tells him that the meat he ate was ground into weiners and that he feels he wants to bring ground wood to the priest, anecdote); 2. La vaca y el ratoncito (a cow sees a little mouse and tells him she is shocked to see...
Dates:
1971, 1974
Ana Orona de Peetz, recorder, 1974
Item — Box: 2, CD: 130
Scope and Contents
Maria Melinda Orona, b. 1922, La Constancia, NM. 1. Sudario (recites a prayer for the soul of a deceased person or for the souls in Purgatory, velorio, muerte, death, burial, funeral); 2. Alabado (good recording, recites a hymn of praise to the Holy Child of Atocha, Nino de Atocha); 3. Jaculatoria (recites an aguinaldo prayer to the Virgin Mary); 4. Santa Lucia (recites an old prayer that is still quite popular in twentieth century New Mexico, Virgin Mary on the Monte de San Lucia, crucifixion...
Dates:
1974
Ana Orona de Peetz, Manuel Romero, Gilbert Sedillo, Jose Luis Gonzalez, recorders, 1974
Item — Box: 2, CD: 131
Scope and Contents
Orona de Peetz, 1974: Maria Melinda Orona, b. 1922, La Constancia, NM. 1. Cuento sobrenatural (supernatural story, the ghost of a deceased woman is haunting her surviving relatives, one night the daughter in law of the dead woman goes into a room and faints when she hears her voice, she tells her relatives the woman asked them to pray a novena for her, ghost story, muerte, death); 2. Cuento sobrenatural (a young man and his aunt kid each other saying that whoever dies first will come and tickle...
Dates:
1974
Olivia Moya, Sylvia Ortiz, Vicente Martinez, Pat Sanchez, recorders, 1971
Item — Box: 2, CD: 132
Scope and Contents
Moya, 1971: Harold Garcia, b. 1916, Pojoaque, NM. 1. Los santos salen de noche (people say that the statues of saints wear out their shoes because they walk at night, folk tale); 2. La tierra del santuario de Chimayo (there is a hole that is full of soil in the mission of Chimayo, many people take soil from there believing it to be holy, the hole never empties, local history, cures, miracle, relilgion, church, faith); 3. El retrato en la iglesia de Ranchos de Taos (the picture in the church at...
Dates:
1971
Vincente Martinez, Pat Sanchez, Lawrence Garcia, recorders, 1971, 1972
Item — Box: 2, CD: 133
Scope and Contents
Martinez and Sanchez, 1971: Cancioneros anonimos 1. Musica y canciones en la cantina de Porfirio Padilla, music from the bar in Los Padillas, New Mexico, performed by Porfirio - good to fair recording, un baile, Cuento borrachito, song in story, Tonada alegre, . Corrido de Gregorio Cortez (Part II, fair recording); 2. Porfirio Padilla, biografia, datos personales, etc.; 3. Adivinanzas, conversation, etc. (Porfirio talks about people he has known and about the difficulties he experienced in the...
Dates:
1971, 1972
Ruben Cobos, Anthony Williams, Stephanie Williams, recorders, 1974
Item — Box: 2, CD: 134
Scope and Contents
Cobos, 1974: Seledonio Romero, b. 1906, Vadito, NM. 1. Juego de La navajita, trompitos, etc. (describes the game of throwing una navajita or pocket knife by hand to stick in the ground, also tells of trompitos with letters P, N, T, etc., a game played with matches as prizes, children, leisure); 2. Los dos amigos (a man gets a go between to bring him items belonging to his friend's wife so he can prove she is unfaithful, the king become the judge, woman is proven innocent, women, marriage, folk...
Dates:
1974
Ruben Cobos, Joseph Rael, Ana Orona de Peetz, recorders, 1974
Item — Box: 2, CD: 135
Scope and Contents
Cobos, 1974: Ricardo Sandoval, b. 1910, Albuquerque, NM. 1. El quelite, a fragmment; Me canse de rogarle (love song, missing his woman, commentary, good recording, women); 2. Cancion mixteca (good recording, guitar accompaniment, sad song, nostalgia); 3. Malaguena (love song, women from Malaga, Spain, good recording, cuts off abruptly); 4. Recuerdos de Martineztown, Albuquerque (a few memories of life in 1930s, mentions Fidel Martinez, gordo, a wheeler and dealer, died; Maggie); 5. La...
Dates:
1974