Stories, Proposing and wooing a woman before

Cuentos, Pedida y Cortejar a una mujer antes

Object Details

Subject LanguageAwakateko
Language PID(s)ailla:119668
Title [Indigenous]
Language of Indigenous Title
TitleStories, Proposing and wooing a woman before
Language Community
Country(ies)Guatemala
Place CreatedAguacatán, Huehuetenango
Date Created2005-05-14
Description [Indigenous]
Language of Indigenous Description
DescriptionDocumentation of Minority Languages: Awakateko y Tektiteko (NORAD)
1) Relating why the river is called Río San Juan and telling about how he went for a woman named Juana because in that birth came out a basket filled with fruit and he pursued Juana but by little by little he went farther inside and Juana didn't come out.
2) The story of Pedro the Gourd and the three merchants in which three merchants go adventuring with a woman but in this case Pedro was the one who got what the other men wanted.
3) Another version of the story of Pedro the Gourd and the three merchants.
GenresNarrative
Source NoteVDtex004awa06.mpg
References
Contributor(s) Individual / RoleVelásquez Velásquez, Gaspar (Speaker)
Mejía Mendoza, María (Speaker)
Mendoza Mendoza, Juan (Speaker)
Mateo Toledo, B'alam (Researcher)
Delgado Rojas, Edna Patricia (Researcher)
Mendoza Solís, Johanna Liseth (Researcher)
Rodríguez Rodríguez, María Virginia (Speaker)
Contributor(s) Corporate / Role

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AGU001R004I001.mpg1
AGU001R004I001.mp4video/mp41

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