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Festivals.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Folk customs in Curry County. J. Vernon Smithson, collector., 1936-1940

 File
Identifier: 5-4-22 10
Scope and Contents

Descriptions of quilting bees, pionee days, Christmas, dances, etc.

Dates: 1936-1940

Negro Emancipation Day barbeque - Roswell, N.M. Georgia B. Redfield, collector., 1936-1940

 File
Identifier: 5-5-50 33
Scope and Contents

Description of this celebration.

Dates: 1936-1940

Old-timers' celebration and barbeque. Georgia B. Redfield, collector., 1936-1940

 File
Identifier: 5-5-50 34
Scope and Contents

Annual October celebration held in Roswell, N.M.

Dates: 1936-1940

Rooster race - 1938. Kenneth Fordyce, collector., 1936-1940

 File
Identifier: 5-5-61 26
Scope and Contents

Description of a Spanish holiday in which the gallo or rooster race in the main event. (Aug. 3, 1938).

Dates: 1936-1940

San Geronimo celebrations. Reyes N. Martinez, collector., 1936-1940

 File
Identifier: 5-5-47 34
Scope and Contents

San Geronimo celebrations during the nineties. Description of the fiesta of San Geronimo at Taos, N.M.

Dates: 1936-1940

Spanish-American Festivals and dramas. Lester Raines, collector., 1936-1940

 File
Identifier: 5-5-46 8
Scope and Contents

Description of a variety of holidays, plays, and fiestas celebrated in New Mexico.

Dates: 1936-1940

Spanish folk customs. Bright Lynn, collector., 1936-1940

 File
Identifier: 5-5-2 5
Scope and Content From the Collection:

Collection consists of typed documents produced by employees of the W.P.A. and its subdivision the Federal Writer's Project in New Mexico. Most of the collection is made up of transcripts of oral history interviews conducted with New Mexicans, and folklore and stories about New Mexico and Hispanic culture in particular.

Dates: 1936-1940

The guest at the Kiva. Reyes N. Martinez, collector., 1936-1940

 File
Identifier: 5-4-22 5
Scope and Contents

San Geronimo Day, the annual feast at Taos Pueblo.

Dates: 1936-1940