SOC-906 California Missions: 1769 - Secularization
San Fernando Mission - Date founded: Sept. 8, 1797
San Fernando Mission: Begun in 1810 and completed twelve years later, the "long building" is unlike any of its contemporary structures except the mission-house at La Purisima Concepcion. Measuring 243 feet in length by fifty in width, the apex of the two-story structure is forty-five feet high with exterior walls three feet thick. The sloping tiled roof is supported on the front side by twenty-one Roman arches.
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This San Fernando Mission Indian woman is using a pounding stone to crush acorn kernels. She will pound the kernels until they are crushed into a flour-like meal. Pounding day after day has formed a hole in the boulder. The brush, made of soap root husks, is used to sweep broken kernels back into the hole, to be pounded again.
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This San Fernando Mission man is fastening an arrowhead to a short shaft. He is winding deer sinew to hold the arrowhead tightly into the shaft. He has chewed the sinew to make it soft. Sinew is the strong cord that holds the muscle to the bone. Sinew was also used as thread to sew the Indian's clothing.
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Carmel Mission - Date founded: June 3, 1770
Sir Harry Downie and the previous instructor, Bob Kirchner, are shown taping a tour of the Carmel Mission (top photo) and seated in Curator Downie's office discussing the discovery and settlement of Alta California.
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Garden view of the Carmel Mission.
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Sir Harry Downie, restorer of the Carmel Mission (San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo) shown seated near the entrance to the mission's Vestments Room.
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