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THE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER OF THE CALIFORNIA MISSION STUDIES ASSOCIATION
CONTENTS:
2008 CONFERENCE AT TUMACÁCORI
BOLETÍN
ACADEMY OF AMERICAN FRANCISCAN HISTORY SEMINAR: RUBÉN MENDOZA
PRESENTATION AT SANTA BARBARA MISSION ARCHIVE-LIBRARY: MARY LOUISE DAYS
EXHIBIT AT MUSEO DE LA CARICATURA IN MEXICO CITY
ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS, MISSION SAN ANTONIO
ROBERT S. WEDDLE AWARD
EXHIBIT AT SANTA BARBARA TRUST
BAJA CALIFORNIA MISSION AND MISSION SITE TOUR
GEIGER FELLOWSHIP AT SANTA BARBARA MISSION ARCHIVE-LIBRARY
SPANISH COLONIAL INFORMATION ON WWW.TEXASBEYONDHISTORY.NET WEBSITE
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
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2008 CONFERENCE AT TUMACÁCORI
The 2008 CMSA conference will take place at Tumacácori Mission south of Tucson over Presidents’ Day weekend, February 15-19, 2008. Conference Chair Diana Hadley of the Arizona State Museum and the Southwest Mission Research Center is organizing what promises to be a memorable experience.
Formal registration information and forms will be sent out in about a month. But for those of you who wish to mark your calendars now, here is a general summary of events:
On Friday, February 15, a tour of San Xavier del Bac and the site of San Agustín will begin at noon. Registration will occur later in the afternoon at the Esplendor Resort, the conference hotel about a ten minute drive from Tumacácori. The opening reception will be held at Tumacácori on Friday evening. Presentations will be given on Saturday. Presentations are planned on a number of topics, including a comparison of the missions in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas; the art of northern New Spain; comparative mission gardens in Arizona, California, and Sonora; and other interesting topics. (This conference will be similar to the conferences at Loreto (1997) and La Paz (2002), in that the presentations will be fewer in number and solicited, so that we can enjoy the maximum advantage of our location.
An abbreviated two day/one night “Kino Tour” into Sonora will be available on Sunday and Monday for those interested. If enough people are able to stay into Tuesday, the conference will provide a tour of the O’odham Reservation and Museum. Reserve these dates for what promises to be a very exciting CMSA conference!
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BOLETÍN
The next issue of the Boletín is at the printer and should be in members’ hands in a month or so. It will be a double issue, vol. 23, no. 2 and vol. 24, no. 1. As a double issue, it will contain two color sections. The lead article, by Valerie Sherer Mathes, offers an important glimpse into the life of Helen Hunt Jackson and her work on behalf of the California Mission Indians. We hope that you will find that the issue was worth the wait. The next issue, vol. 24, no. 2, will be out early next year. In fact, we hope that you will have it before the Tumacácori conference.
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ACADEMY OF AMERICAN FRANCISCAN HISTORY SEMINAR: RUBÉN MENDOZA
CMSA member Dr. Rubén Mendoza of California State University Monterey Bay will inaugurate this academic year’s AAFH seminars with a presentation entitled “Skywatchers of the Millennial Kingdom: Astronomy and Solar Geometry in the
California Missions, 1769-1854." The event will take place on
Saturday, September 8, 2007 at 10:00 AM at the Franciscan School of Theology, 1712 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley. All are welcome! For more information, please contact Dr. Jeffrey M. Burns, Director, Academy of American Franciscan History, at acadafh@fst.edu or 510-548-1755
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PRESENTATION AT SANTA BARBARA MISSION ARCHIVE-LIBRARY: MARY LOUISE DAYS
CMSA member Mary Louise Days will speak on “The Mission Etchings of Edward Borein” on September 16, 2007 at 2 p.m. at the Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library. Tapas and refreshments will follow. All are cordially invited.
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EXHIBIT AT MUSEO DE LA CARICATURA IN MEXICO CITY
If work or pleasure is taking you to Mexico City in the near future, be sure to check out the exhibit at the Museo de la Caricatura in the Centro Histórico. It consists of 65 pieces from 19th-century Mexico, which were provided through the efforts of CMSA member Paul A. Dentzel. The pieces were collected by his father, Carl Dentzel.
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS, MISSION SAN ANTONIO
Bob Hoover writes:
One of the goals of the archaeology program at Mission San Antonio over
the last 31 years has been the creation and organization of a collection of
materials that can be used for reference study by others interested in the
Spanish colonial period. While we have tried to accomplish this as part of each
year’s class duties, we discovered that there was some variation in
thoroughness and terminology from year to year, and there were also collections made
before the beginning of Cal Poly’s Field School in 1976. All of these problems
have been surmounted now, and the entire collection has been classified and
boxed in a uniform manner on shelves along both walls of a long storage room at
the mission. Each artifact and its standardized container has been labeled
with information by catalogue number, type. location, date, and crew number.
Artifacts have been boxed by year and type, too, making recovery a much easier
job. There is even a small table at the end of the room for studying
materials that have been drawn out of the collections.
That this project continued for so long resulted in collections being
stored in various obscure locations around the mission (attic, wine storage
area, archives, etc.) As these collections were relocated, they were all
brought to a central location and incorporated into the collections. There are
few perishable items in the San Antonio archaeological collections, so problems
of temperature and humidity are not major factors. Conservation of rusted
iron objects is the commonest need for the collection. Dr. Russell Skowronek
of Santa Clara University has agreed to help us get a small conservation
facility set up at the mission for this purpose. Instructions on the use of
collections and some informational data are located on the shelves. We also have
provided quite a few type collections of animal bones, architectural elements,
and lithics as study aids.
An archaeological collection is much like a library. Its usefulness
depends on the orderly filing of everything in the collection for easy
retrieval. If objects are misfiled, though they may still be in the collection, they
are useless, as no one can find where they are. Thus, it is important to
follow the procedures for use placed in the collections area. Researchers
should allow staff to do the refiling. We hope that this collection becomes a
major source of information for researchers for generations to come. They will
have the opportunity to study the collection at the site where it was found
(always desirable) and use it in conjunction with the catalogue and fields notes
on file at the site.
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ROBERT S. WEDDLE AWARD
CMSA member Susan Anderson Kerr received the first Robert S. Weddle award from the Texas Catholic Historical Society for her essay, co-authored with Christopher LeCluyse, “European Iconography on the Texas Frontier: St. Mary's Cathedral, Austin." The article appeared in volume 17 of Catholic Southwest. Congratulations, Susan!
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EXHIBIT AT SANTA BARBARA TRUST
The Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation presents “Forged in Iron: the Expressive Art of the Roof Cross Tradition in Chiapas, Mexico,” May 30-November 11, 2007.
This unique exhibit features a collection of handcrafted iron roof crosses, tools used by the skilled iron workers who created them, and contemporary photographs of the region where this tradition flourishes.
At the Casa de la Guerra Historic House Museum. Thursday -- Sunday, 12 p.m. -- 4 p.m.. General admission is $3 , free for Trust members.
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BAJA CALIFORNIA MISSION AND MISSION SITE TOUR
A Mission Sampler of Baja California
Lecture tour of the extraordinary peninsula of Baja California, sponsored by CAREM, a nonprofit foundation dedicated to the preservation of Baja California history.
The tour will visit eight Jesuit, Franciscan, and Dominican missions and mission sites. It will be led by renowned Baja California historian Dr. W. Michael Mathes. October 26 -- 30,2007. The cost is $450 for double occupancy accommodations and $600 for single occupancy accommodations.
For more information contact Zella Ibañez atzella@prodigy.net.mx or 011 -- 5 2 -- 665 -- 655 -- 6419, or Lily Kellenberger at lilykelco@yahoo.com, or 011 -- 52 -- 665 -- 654 -- 3460. The mailing address for CAREM is: P.O. Box 280, Tecate, CA 91980
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GEIGER FELLOWSHIP AT SANTA BARBARA MISSION ARCHIVE-LIBRARY
The Santa Barbara Mission Archive Library announces that the Geiger Memorial Fellowship deadline is December 1. The purpose of the Fellowship is to support scholarly research related to the American Southwest prior to 1846, with preferential consideration being given to studies relating to Alta and Baja California. The Fellowship is open to junior scholars who are beginning careers in an academic professional institution or field. Applicants should normally hold a Ph.D. degree or the equivalent in an appropriate discipline to arrange for their research interest. However, consideration will also be given to outstanding graduate students in candidacy for the doctorate. The Fellowship includes a stipend of $2500 and requires a four week residency at the Mission Archive-Library. For more information, see the Archive-Library’s website at http://www.sbmal.org/geigerfellowship.html
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SPANISH COLONIAL INFORMATION ON WWW.TEXASBEYONDHISTORY.NET WEBSITE
Lou Fullen writes:
New Spanish Colonial information has been added to the Texas Beyond History website www.texasbeyondhistory.net Click on Los Adaes for the latest addition. Also look at Presidio San Saba, Mission San Saba and the Gateway Missions along the Rio Grande.
The Texas Archeological Society completed their third field school at Presidio San Saba, Menard, Texas. The school was directed by Dr. Tamara Walter of Texas Tech University. We understand that a long-time goal of reconstructing the presidio by the local community will be assisted by The Texas Historical Commission.
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Maureen Ahern, "Martyrs and Idols: Performing Ritual Warfare on Early Missionary Frontiers in the Northwest," in Religion in New Spain, ed. Susan Schroeder and Stafford Poole (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007), 279 -- 297.
Richard J. Chacón and Rubén G. Mendoza, ed., North American Indigenous Warfare and Ritual Violence (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007), 304 pp. Cloth. ISNB: 978-0-8165-2532-4. $50.00
Richard J. Chacón and Rubén G. Mendoza, ed., Latin American Indigenous Warfare and Ritual Violence (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007), 304 pp.
Cloth. ISBN 978-0-8165-2527-0). $50.00
Debbie S. Cunningham, "Father Isidro Félix de Espinosa's Diary of the New Entry into the Province of the Tejas, Year 1716: an Annotated Translation," Catholic Southwest 18 (2007): 9-35.
John P. Ellis, "Idolatrous Christians, God-Fearing Pagans, and the Pueblo Revolt: Reactions to Catholic Christianity Among the Pueblo Indians, 1598-1681," Catholic Southwest 18 (2007), 37-60.
Glenn Farris , trans. and ed., Visit of Cyrille Pierre-Theodore Laplace to Fort Ross and Bodega Bay in August 1839. (Jenner, CA: Fort Ross Interpretive Association, 2006). 66 p. Paper, $10.50.
Ralph Frasca, "The Press and the San Patricios During the Mexican-American War: Martyred Catholics or Traitorous Deserters?" Catholic Southwest 18 (2007): 85-103.
Robert H. Jackson, "Demographic Patterns in the Jesuit Missions of the Río de la Plata Region: The Case of Corpus Christi Mission, 1622-1802," CLAHR 13: 4 (Fall/Otoño 2004).
Robert H. Jackson, "Race and the Definition of 'Indian' Identity on the Fringes of Colonial Spanish America," Revista de Estudios Sociales [Bogota, Colombia: Universidad de los Andes] 26 (2006): 116-125.
Kristin Dutcher Mann, “Opus Dei–‘The Work of God’: Franciscan and Jesuit Music," in Religion in New Spain, ed. Susan Schroeder and Stafford Poole (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007), 266-278.