¡Colores!; Interview with Roberto Valdez, 2 and Colonial Women's Dress

KNME-TV (Television station : Albuquerque, N.M.) · September 24, 2006

This file contains raw footage of Roberto Valdez wearing the historical military attire of the Spanish, including shields made of tortoise shells (influenced by the Moors) and leather moccasins. File also features shots of the inside of a tannery/fur workshop. From 13:45 to end of file, a woman named Loli Martin wears historical attire and reads an inventory list from a will while sitting in one of the adobe homes at El Rancho de Las Golondrinas. Martin talks about the lack of historical records of women's clothing in the colonial period in the territory of New Mexico. Each of the articles worn by Martin are named and discussed. Footage shot for the ¡Colores! episode "Villa de Alburquerque." In honor of Albuquerque, New Mexico’s, celebration of its tricentennial, KNME proudly presents “Villa de Alburquerque.” This ¡Colores! production is a one-hour documentary that looks at the life and times of 18th century Albuquerque. The documentary covers the Spanish colonial period (1706 - 1821) and provides audiences with a sense of how people - settlers, soldiers, servants, nomadic tribes, and others – lived. It will also examine the cross-cultural influences of the time that help define what it means to be a New Mexican today. Avoiding a text book chronological map of the period and with the help of historians, musicians, re-enactors, and a DNA investigator, “Villa de Alburquerque” explores the historical roots of our mixed heritage, conveying the lives of the common people behind the big names and events of New Mexico’s Spanish colonial period. Funding for this program was provided by The Albuquerque Tricentennial and New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts.