Box 3
Container
Contains 106 Results:
Susan Herrera, anonymous, recorders, 1973
File — Box: 3, CD: 226
Scope and Contents
Leandro Herrera, b. 1901, Chamita. NM. (Fair recording). 1. Datos personales (personal information, address in San Juan, NM, 72 years old); 2. Reloj que despierta el alma (time clock that awakens soul, Semana Santa, Holy Week, Good Friday, passion of Christ, suffering taught us to be humble, gratitude for Eternal Father); 3. Obras de la Semana Santa (he recites one prayer for each day of Holy Week, Semana Santa, and for each station of cross, details of passion, history with prayers, meaning,...
Dates:
1973
Ruben Cobos, Kelly Lopez, Anoymous, recorders, 1949, 1970
File — Box: 3, CD: 227
Scope and Contents
Cobos, 1949: Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer. (Probably commercial recording, good recording, Cobos wire recording). La viuda abandonada (song with accompaniment, abandoned widow, thinks her husband left, but he is killed by a Japanese man, in the city of Valencia, she will wait six years before remarriage, she wears all black, women, muerte, mourning, see CD 242). (Valencia, California version). Dueto America, Mexican singers. (Probably commercial recording, good recording). Elena y...
Dates:
1949, 1970
Jon Smith, Ruben Cobos, recorders, 1969, 1970
File — Box: 3, CD: 228
Scope and Contents
Mrs. Mack Zamora, Albuquerque, NM, 1969. (Good recording). Indita de San Luis (Part I, I come from far lands looking for Saint Louis, to whom I promised I would dance, anahey anahey anahey o. A swallow passes the sea to San Luis. I will put right foot forward, I will give good nights to married senores, I will ask them for a blessing. Santo Nino Manuelito, only you know the heart of each and your needs. San Luis Gonzaga, you are a good a counselor, concede the miracle that I ask of you today....
Dates:
1969, 1970
Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1974
File — Box: 3, CD: 229
Scope and Contents
Epifanio Gutierrez, b. 1885, Cuba, NM. 1. Chiste, los santos (a man stops at house looking for a place to stay, residents let him in, when he leaves he says - quedense con dios que yo me voy con los santos - a common Spanish saying, go with God, I'll go with the saints, man steals all their santo statues, trickster); 2. Rodestrado (description of old guest house, hospitality, cuarto de recibo, separate house connected to main house, divided by curtain called damasco and a floor divider called a...
Dates:
1974
Joseph Rael, recorder, 1974
File — Box: 3, CD: 230
Scope and Contents
Seledonio Romero, b. 1906, Ignacio, Colorado. Later lived in Vadito, NM. 1. El buen pelotero (story, cuento, a young man is best ball player, no one can beat him. Devil, diablo, thinks he can. They make a bet, if boy wins devil will serve him but if he wins, boy will serve devil. They play, devil wins, boy goes with him. Many years later, devil lets him visit his family with three demands in three days - crops from granary for meal, axe from mountain to cut wheat, trigo and make bread, and tame...
Dates:
1974
Ana Orona de Peetz, recorder, 1974
File — Box: 3, CD: 231
Scope and Contents
Ana de Orona Peetz, b. 1954, La Constancia, NM, Valencia County. (Poor recording, see Cobos notes in folder). Un rezo (prayer, asks Virgin Mary that she receive the flowers and my heart, faith, religion). Mrs. Maria Melinda Orona, b. 1922, La Constancia, NM. 1. Las doce verdades del mundo (The twelve truths of the world prayer, recited - 1. one holy house of Jerusalem, 2. two tablets of Moses, 3. three of Trinity, 4. four Evangelists, 5. five wounds of Jesus, 6. six candle sticks,...
Dates:
1974
Anthony and Stephanie Williams, recorders, 1974
File — Box: 3, CD: 232
Scope and Contents
Jose Edujenio Trujillo, b. 1892, Hernandez, NM, later in Espanola. (Entire CD in Spanglish). 1. Conversacion (various, many people remember seeing a bear while searching for herbs in Hernandez, New Mexico; home remedies, medicine; women are terrified, speaker is armed with 22 rifle; speaker's cousin, Jose Gregorio Lovato, marries sister an illiterate story teller; descriptions of rams, carneros, sheep, that are branded, domesticated); 3. La gente mala (speaker thinks worst thing, that he can't...
Dates:
1974
Joseph Rael, Manuel A. Romero, Jr., recorders, 1974
File — Box: 3, CD: 233
Scope and Contents
Rael, 1974: Seledonio Romero, b. 1906, Ignacio, Colorado. Later lived in Vadito, NM. Juan Oso (Part II, see Part I at CD 230, folk tale, Juan Oso, part man, part bear, gets in a fight with El Negrito, a dark man. Juan and friends go to house of el Negrito, only Juan brave enough to enter, finds a princess who says there are two more princesses, they free all three. Also they help a sad silversmith make crowns for the queen and the three princesses. The king tells Juan if he obtains a crown for...
Dates:
1974
Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1974
File — Box: 3, CD: 234
Scope and Contents
Epifanio Gutierrez, b. 1885, Cuba, NM. 1. El nombre de Cuba, local history of Cuba, New Mexico (town named after one of first settlers, Don Bartolo, from island of Cuba, this occurred before speaker's birth. Story of men in a saloon, near where Frontier Restaurant is now? - near Rio Puerco. Today, town divided into Cuba and Cubita); 2. Los navajoses, the Navajos (a man named Abran Sanchez spoke Navajo and sung an Indita de los soldados, in Spanish with some Navajo; Jose Garcia is speaker's...
Dates:
1974
Anita M. Salazar, Phil Trujillo, Audilio Miranda, Anonymous, recorders, 1970
File — Box: 3, CD: 235
Scope and Contents
(CD 235 repeats some of the material on CD 182. For additional stories told by Davis, see CD 183). Salazar, 1970: Demetrio Montoya, b. 1886, Rainsville, NM. 1. La rana (agglutinate, each animal silences the previous one); 2. El leon y el grillo (cuento, story about lion and cricket, cricket asks why he is stepped on, lion explains that he is king of animals); 3. No dejes camino por vereda (story, cuento, two friends take different paths to the same end, one that takes more frequented path is...
Dates:
1970
Maria Zamora, recorder, 1971
File — Box: 3, CD: 236
Scope and Contents
Juan Marquez, b. 1892, Las Vegas, NM, now in Albuquerque. (Some of these stories by Mr. Marquez also found on CD 201 and CD 127, with different titles). 1. El hombre que tenia un solo hijo; 2. El enganoso (story, cuento, man discovers magic fruits that make him ill or well, he makes the king and queen sick, dresses up as a doctor and cures them, is rewarded with money. He goes to next town, marries the daughter of that king, but previous royal couple attends, discover him, he kills them,...
Dates:
1971
Rosa Fernandez Mines, Ruben Cobos, recorders, 1974, 1975
File — Box: 3, CD: 237
Scope and Contents
Mines, 1975: Anonymous, female, Taos, NM. (Fair recording). (Cobos notes in folder). Entriega de novios (wedding song, marriage, after forming world, God created man, woman from rib of Adam in shadow of a laurel. This morning four flowers left church, padrino, padrina, godparents and the prince and princess, bride and groom. Priest asks them if they want to marry, they say yes, bishop asks them to hold hands like Joseph and Mary. Significance of elements of marriage, ring is patent, the crown a...
Dates:
1974, 1975
Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1949
File — Box: 3, CD: 238
Scope and Contents
Adolfo Castillo, Alameda, NM. (Some of CD 238 repeated in CD 239). (Alabados, sixteen, poor recording, apparently continued from another recording, CD 239?) 1. Alabados, Part II? (song, continued, Come to adore the sweet blood of Christ in the temple of God); 2. San Ignacio de Loyola (conquistas fraternidades, song, St. Ignatius of Loyola); 3. Por la orilla de un arroyo (song, religious, by the edge of a ditch, arroyo, Virgin of Guadalupe, pastoral apparition, miracle, blessing); 4. El...
Dates:
1949
Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1949
File — Box: 3, CD: 239
Scope and Contents
Alfonso Castillo, b. 1878, Alameda, NM. (CD 239 repeats some of CD 238).1. El miercoles de ceniza (song, Ash Wednesday, Lent begins, God selected Jesus for His will, rises in forty days); 2. Adios, acompanamiento (song of deceased, man says goodbye to all, velorio, death, muerte, funeral); 3. Por la calle mas amarga pasearon a mi Jesus (song, passion of Christ); 4. Jesucristo me acompane y el angel de nuestra guarda (song, asks Jesus and a guardian angel to accompany him on his first step); 5....
Dates:
1949
Ella Vigil, recorder, 1974
File — Box: 3, CD: 240A
Scope and Contents
Eleuto Medina, b. 1890, San Luis, Colorado. (Ella Vigil worked with Cobos at Colorado College). 1. Datos personales (personal information, 83 years old, born in Chama, New Mexico, on October 15, stayed in Chama only 3 days, moved to La Valle, Colorado, Father Felipe Medina, mother Teofila Sanchez, at 5 years old he moved to Monte Vista, Colorado, graduated 1911 from Monte Vista, went back to La Valle to teach in 1912, salary of $57 per month, interest in folklore, folk music, grandfather was a...
Dates:
1974
Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1973
File — Box: 3, CD: 240B
Scope and Contents
Ruben Cobos y sus cuates, Washington, DC, Nov. 1973. (Excellent recording). Cobos and his young singers were in Washington. All songs accompanied by guitar. 1. El reloj (Ernie Sanchez, Pojoaque, New Mexico, Love song about a woman that will leave soon, lover asks clock to stop, she is star of my life, I am nothing without her); 2. Solamente una vez (Ernie y los Borrachos, Love was only one time. Hope lights up my lonely path, bells ring in heart at the miracle of love); 3. Munequita linda...
Dates:
1973
Ella Vigil, recorder, 1974, 1975
File — Box: 3, CD: 241A
Scope and Contents
Fedelina Martinez, b. 1903, La Valle, Colorado later to San Luis, CO. Wedding customs (asking for girls hand in marriage, speaker's boyfriend Felipe, and parents, Epifania and Eulalio Martine, came to her house with his padrinos Francisquito and Miquelita Martinez, brought a card and read it aloud to her parents Brijido and Floripe Espinosa). (Ella Martinez Vigil). Ella Vigil, b. 1935, San Luis, Colorado. Peticion de mano (read, letter asking girl's parents for her hand in...
Dates:
1974, 1975
Ella Vigil, recorder, 1974
File — Box: 3, CD: 241B
Scope and Contents
A second recording CD 241, 2 of 2, Mr. Martinez, b. in La Valle, 64 years old (rhyming song, improvisation with guitar, cousin to Felina Martinez, other people that are present are named, Gonzalez, Chacon). Esther Gallegos, b. La Valle, Colorado, 56 years old (rhyming song, improvisation with guitar, I come from my house, walking); Teresa Salazar, b. San Luis, Colorado, 64 years old (rhyming song, improvisation with guitar, they say that darkness is sad but dark eyes are not); Female and male...
Dates:
1974
Anonymous, undated
File — Box: 3, CD: 242
Scope and Contents
Recording of a rosario for a deceased person, rosary said at wake, funeral, velorio, death, muerte, said for Juan Duran, Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico, n.d. (Many people crying, Jesus Christ, true God, I regret sin, I give thanks, Our Father prayer began by priest, finished by patrons, Hail Mary, repeated ten times, Glory be to the Father prayer, and religious song, rest in peace, repeat entire pattern five times, song including parts of the other prayers).
Dates:
undated
Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1970
File — Box: 3, CD: 243
Scope and Contents
Recordings of Mexican singers. (Some of these songs are on CD 227. Fair recording, these are commercial recordings, songs with instrumental accompaniment). 1. Hermanos Castro, La esposa infiel (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 his horse, she offers herself to him, he declines and leaves, humor, women); 2....
Dates:
1970
Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1949
File — Box: 3, CD: 244
Scope and Contents
Mrs. Jose de Leon Padilla, b. 1895, Tome, NM. 1. De la Real Jerusalen (Part II cont. very poor recording).
Gabino Varela, b. 1883, Pecos, NM. A la ru (sleep, pretty boy, in the arms of love, while you rest, the shame of my pain, you are safe in the arms of your mother, you will not be offended, Virgin Mary).
Ricardo Archuleta, b. 1878, Cerro, NM. Archuleta y su grupo. (Poor recording). Selecciones de Las Posadas, Joseph and Mary seeking shelter, Navidad, Christmas).
Gabino Varela, b. 1883, Pecos, NM. A la ru (sleep, pretty boy, in the arms of love, while you rest, the shame of my pain, you are safe in the arms of your mother, you will not be offended, Virgin Mary).
Ricardo Archuleta, b. 1878, Cerro, NM. Archuleta y su grupo. (Poor recording). Selecciones de Las Posadas, Joseph and Mary seeking shelter, Navidad, Christmas).
Dates:
1949
Ruben Cobos, recorder, undated
File — Box: 3, CD: 245
Scope and Contents
Recordings of commercial Mexican songs (anonymous, una estrofa de cada una, a short clip of each one). Group One - 1. Las Posadas (Introduccion musical, Navidad, Christmas, instrumental, organ, violin, trumpet); 2. Kyrie Eleison, Ora pro nobis (from the Catholic Mass, choir song, Lord have mercy, Trinity, Virgin Mary, song in Latin); 3. En el nombre del cielo (trumpet, violin, guitar, In the name of heaven, children, girls sing and boys respond, sung in Spanish and Latin, Virgin Mary and...
Dates:
undated
Ruben Cobos, 1974, recorder
File — Box: 3, CD: 246
Scope and Contents
Frances Leon Swadesh, Ethno historian, interview. At New Mexico Folklore Society, 1974, when John Donald Robb was President. 1. Discussion of genizaros and cautivos (in English, Native American Indian captives, in Spanish colonial society, ethnic labels, caste identities changed over time, discusses her encounter with people in Lower Chama Valley, San Juan Basin, New Mexico, who had ancestors that were genizaros on reservation. Genizaro is a non Pueblo Indian, ransom captive of nomadic tribes,...
Dates:
1944-1974
Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1949
File — Box: 3, CD: 247
Scope and Contents
Mrs. Felicitas Montano, B. 1893, Tome, NM. Songs from Los Pastores, Christmas, Navidad. 1. Cuando por el oriente); 2. Ya que yo soy de las filas del rey, todo el orbe se convoque (poor recording); 3. Gloria a Dios en las Alturas; 4. De donde, pues, Ir a Belen (to Bethlehem, Holy Land, Emmanuel); 5. Como si fuera volando, Alegres vamos los cuatro (arrival at manger, happiness); 6. Duermete, nino lindo, A la ru (lullaby for Baby Jesus); 7. Gloria a Dios en las Alturas; 8. Angel de hermosura...
Dates:
1949
Johnny Lopez, Primitivo Trujillo, recorders, 1974
File — Box: 3, CD: 248
Scope and Contents
Lopez, 1974: Tranquilino Lopez, b. 1900, Las Trampas, NM. (Poor recording). 1. La yegua (song, I was raised in the most ungrateful place, assisted by Jose Maria Lovato, they brought a horse from Mora, New Mexico, Pablito went to Embudo, New Mexico, I stayed in the corral, Gregorio and Delaida get a divorce); 2. La familia de sordos (cuento, story, family that were all deaf, misunderstanding over a dead cow). Lopez, 1974: Bernardino Armijo, b. 1898, Las Trampas, NM. 1. Cancion (love...
Dates:
1974