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I am seeking any and all published/unpublished references addressing small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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