- Title: Un Elefante Se Columpiaba
- General Information about item:
- Verbal Lore, lullaby
- Language: Spanishi
- Country of Origin: Mexico
- Informant: D.A.E
- Date Collected: 11-03-2021
- Informant Data: D.A.E is a female student member of the class of 2025. She is going to major in Mathematics and in Computer Science. She enjoys playing Basketball and sometimes canoeing at Ledyard.
- Contextual Data:
- Cultural Context: These kind of songs were a way to entertain children before bedtime, and were versatile enough, that it could also be used during the day.
- Social Context: This lullaby was sang by her mother and other mothers in their preschool. They sometimes acted how they were “balancing on a spider’s web’.
- Associated File:
- Transcript:
- Un elefante se balanceaba sobre
- la tela de una araña
- como veia que resistia
- se fue a llamar a otro elefante
- Informant’s Comments: It was something that entertained and soothed me. It was great to watch my mother act it after a day in kindergarden.
- Collector’s Comments: Very sweet, playful lullaby.
- Collector’s Name: Ignacio Ortiz
Un Elefante Se Columpiaba (Ignacio Ortiz)
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