The above noted Deagan book will take you to a lot of good reference
material.  You can also try:
Crucifixes and Medallions: Their Role at Fort Michilimackinac by Charles
Joseph Rinehart.  USC: South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and
Anthropology, 1991.





On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Bunny <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> The short answer to the original query is that there is no book or article
> I'm aware of that tries to pull together data concerning 19th century
> Catholic religious medallions in the Southwest or, for that matter, anywhere
> else.  Given the numbers of cemeteries now being dug up in the path of
> various kinds of "progress," I'm sure the grey literature -- to say nothing
> of unpulished manuscripts -- is replete with descriptions of many such
> objects.
>   Analysis of these artifacts at the receiving end (i.e., where they ended
> up with a consumer) would be far less fruitful than an effort to chase down
> their manufacturing sources -- some, no doubt, in Italy..  It's not
> impossible that there were even catalogs of them just as there probably are
> today.  One might start by checking with a Catholic religious supply store
> where rosaries, books, statues, paintings, cross and crucifixes, etc. are
> sold and inquring about sources of their supply.  It could be that some of
> these companies have been in business for a couple hundresd years.
>   Bunny Fontana
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron May" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 6:24 PM
> Subject: Re: Religious pendants
>
>
>
> I know there is unpublished material on 19th century Catholic medallion
> > pendants from the Royal Presidio de San Diego in California. The
> > collection is
> > curated by the City of San Diego, Park & Recreation Department and I
> > understand
> > there is a committee working with the collection. Some of Paul H.
> >  Ezell's
> > papers on the medallions might be at the San Diego Historical Society.
> > Also,
> > the SHA in Baltimore had a number of people who were specialists in
> > religious
> > medals, including a man whose name escapes me, but he worked for the
> > Smithsonian Institution. I suggest you contact the Southwest Mission
> > Research  Center
> > and Bunny Fontana.
> >
> > Just to add to this issue, underwater archaeologist Roy Pettus led a
> > dive
> > team in 1981 that recovered a Catholic medallion attached to a necklace
> > with
> > olive wood beads in about 15-feet of water south of Ballast Point, San
> > Diego,
> > California. The medallion was drawn and published by the Cabrillo
> > Historical
> > Association, Cabrillo National Monument in 1982. I later learned the
> > date of
> > "1830" on the medal refers to a miracle alleged to occur on that date
> > and does
> > not actually date the age of the medallion. We were always suspect of
> > the
> > olive  wood surviving very long underwater.
> >
> > Ron May
> > Legacy 106, Inc.
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 5/10/2008 5:53:06 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> > [log in to unmask] writes:
> >
> > Greetings all,
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone out there might know of  a
> > good website or source materials for identifying 19th
> > century  religious pendants, specifically
> > mexican-american catholic pendants of the  American
> > southwest.
> >
> > Best,
> > Jeremy Pye
> >
> >
> >
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Mullins, Deborah R.