The landing of Captain Rogers's men at California, and their reception by the natives

The landing of Captain Rogers's men at California, and their reception by the natives

California
Discovery
exploration
Indigenous Peoples
Settlements
European Missionaries
California Missions
Religion

Black and white print on paper, drawing, of scene along coast with sailors being brought ashore on rafts and greeted by Indigenous peoples in their encampment. There are cone-shaped thatched huts in distance. Sketched, patterned border.
Pictures the native people looking almost animalistic, and the Europeans looking inferior. The image also makes the conditions that the missionaries travelled over on look difficult and life-threatening. The main aim of the mission was to teach the indigenous peoples about religion, the benefits, and the Western way of life. Regardless of nationality, missionaries were motivated primarily by the chance to convert the native californians to the Catholic Church. It is also interesting to consider the difference in dress between the indigenous people and the Europeans, and how much of a cultural and religious contrast the missionaries brought.

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Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material

http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf3q2nb5p2
BANC PIC 1963.002:0195--B

19th century - precise date unknown

Hannah Wiseman

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

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Visual - printed image

19th century California