Sandstone slab with pictographs of cross, human figure, and the conjoined letters J and R.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Santa Rosa Island, Santa Barbara Channel Islands, Southern California
Verbatim coll. place:
Rancho Viejo?
Culture or time period:
Spaniards
Collector:
Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
1901
Materials:
Sandstone
Object type:
archaeology
Accession date:
August 1908
Context of use:
Identified as possibly the gravestone of Spanish explorer Juan RodrÃguez Cabrillo.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Photo: Jones, 319, 317, 320, 321. Published: Heizer, R.F. "California's Oldest Historical Relic?", RHLMA, UCB, 1972. Jones, P.M. edited by Heizer & Elsasser, "Arch. Investigations on Santa Rosa Island in 1901", AR 17:2, plate 120 e,f,g. Goodman, Elizabeth "Echo from a Lonely Grave", "The American West," Vol. XII:2, March 1975, illus. p. 29.
Loans:
S1977-1978 #42: Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology (Brown Univ.) (March 1978–September 29, 1978)