Anita - Thank you for your reply.  I would be most grateful if you would
post my query to SPANBORD.  Also, perhaps I would like to subscribe to that
listserve.  Could you send me the details?  The time period I am looking for
is the 1800s and early 1900s.  Thanks again.
 
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From: Anita Cohen-Williams <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Thursday, February 11, 1999 6:50 AM
Subject: Re: Mission Era Copper Crucifixes - Query
 
 
>To both Anthony and Trish,
>
>The list to ask about these topics is SPANBORD, the history and archaeology
>of the Spanish Borderlands, 1521-1900. May I post your queries to that
list?
>
>Anthony, are you sure that the crucifixes are copper and not brass? The
>Franciscans (among others) shipped large quanities of these crucifixes to
>the frontier (including California). Here at the San Diego Presidio
>project, we have found several, and there are many other references as
well.
>
>Trish, what time period are you looking for?
>
>
>At 09:55 PM 2/10/1999 -0800, you wrote:
>>Greetings Histarchers!
>>
>>I am seeking any and all published/unpublished references addressing small
>>(4cm x 2cm x .5cm thick), copper crucifixes introduced by Spanish
>>missionaries and/or colonists to California in the mid-late Eighteenth and
>>early Nineteenth Centuries.  Two such artifacts were recovered during
>>recent excavations at an important Chumash community on the Northern
>>Channel Islands.  One of the crucifixes exhibits an image of Christ on a
>>cross on one side, and an image of a Saint on the other.  If anyone is
>>aware of any sources of information about such crucifixes, or on
crucifixes
>>in general, I would be much obliged if you could send me the reference!
>>
>>Thanks in advance!
>>Feel free to send info off-list to my personal e-mail address.
>>
>>-Anthony
>>
>>
>>
>>Anthony P. Graesch
>>Graduate Student
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>>Department of Anthropology, UCLA
>>405 Hilgard Ave, Box 951553
>>Los Angeles, CA 90095-1553; AJ53
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>Anita Cohen-Williams
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