New Mexico 4

Listen to New Mexico 4, a 72-year-old woman from Isleta Pueblo and Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 72

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 05/12/1937

PLACE OF BIRTH: Isleta Pueblo, New Mexico

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Native American (Isleta Pueblo)

OCCUPATION: N/A

EDUCATION: high school

AREA(S) OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

The subject has never lived anywhere other than the Albuquerque-Isleta Pueblo area. However, she has spent many months in Arizona.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: N/A

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RECORDED BY: Tanera Marshall

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 26/09/2009

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I went out to Arizona because my brother was sick last year, and I almost spent the whole nine months out there. So my sister-in-law, she (like I told you), she’s from Germany or, uh … Anyway, she has a saw — a skill saw — and she sent for these, uh, patterns. So I was trying to use her saw over there and learn how to make dolls. And I just make the picture frames and she makes some other stuff besides that, so … These are, um, Kleenex [sic] boxes, where you put a Kleenex box in here.  And this is for your, um, well, whatever you want to put in here: cotton balls, or pencils, or papers, or … See where those nails are? You put it together with nails and glue it on — just cut that part right there and just glue it on, like … But it was kinda hard, was kinda hard workin’ on those.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Tanera Marshall

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 26/09/2009

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SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY: N/A

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