Mission San Xavier del Bac diary and scrapbook
Ownership record of "Papago" (Tohono O'Odham) land
Collection area: Arizona and Southwest
Collection dates: 1861-1948
Holograph and typescript (photocopy) of Father Bonaventure's private diary and scrapbook describing early 1900's at the mission. Includes photographs of Tohono O'Odham Indians' life, housing, ceremonies. Early entries list baptisms.
Franciscan priest, historian and missionary, mainly to the Tohono O'Odham Indians at Mission San Xavier del Bac, Tucson, Arizona.
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