Box 12
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Article by Ruben Cobos, New Mexico Spanish Folktales, in the New Mexico Folklore Record, New Mexico Folklore Society, Vol. 13, 1973-1974, Albuquerque. English and Spanish, Bilingual. These chistes, jokes or humorous stories were collected by the New Mexico Spanish Folklore class students of Cobos, Fall-Spring 1972-1973. Includes the following informants and their stories, A Rainy Day, El Tiempo Duro, woman gave away family savings, by Mrs. Cleotilde Tafoya de Otero, Mosquero, NM; The New Pupil, El Nuevo Alumno, named Juan Gaona, school, education, question about sheep in the pen, by Nestor Sanchez, Belen, NM; The Wagon That Came Home by Itself, El Carro Que Volvio Solo, at places called El Jarocito and Los Apaches, straps of the horse harness got wet in the rain and shrunk, by Lazaro Vigil, Ojo Feliz, NM; The Lazy Man, El Hombre Flojo, town wanted to bury a useless man because he did not want to work, labor, by Bernardita Duran, Ranchos de Taos, NM; Phillips 66, husband rubs Three in One Oil on pregnant wife to ease labor and she has triplets, what if had used Phillips 66 oil, by Baltamar Garcia, Abiquiu, NM; and The Old Couple and Death, Un Matrimonio y la Muerte, when a trister pretending to be Death comes to take them they refuse and give him their pig instead, by Juan Cordova., 1973-1974
File — Box: 12, Folder: 5
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
The collection consists of 591 recordings of folk songs, folklore and local histories collected by Ruben Cobos from 1944-1974 in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. Also included in the collection are about 270 additional recordings of selected music - a few from New Mexico, many from Mexico and Latin America, and others from Spain, Europe and the U.S. The recordings vary in quality between good, fair, and poor. They contain both musical and spoken content. Most recordings are in...
Dates:
1973-1974