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Mission Indians Ethnography
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Texts
Chinigchinich — Friar Geronimo Boscana (Alfred Robinson translation)Friar Geronimo Boscana's early-nineteenth-century ethnographic account of Juaneño (Acjachemen) religion and custom at Mission San Juan Capistrano, with Alfred Robinson's 1846 English translation and notes — the first book on California published by an American.Mission Memories — John Steven McGroartyJohn Steven McGroarty's 1929 illustrated tour of California's twenty-one Franciscan missions, with pen-and-ink plates by Frederick V. Carpenter and a map of their locations.