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Leland Foerster
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Leland Foerster: "Interior, San Borja"


"Interior, San Borja"

The stone churches in Baja were built by Indian laborers under the supervision of master craftsmen trained in mainland Mexico or Europe. An inventory of tools from another mission provides a glimpse of the modest resources involved: "ten picks, seven masonary trowels, a plumb bob and line, calipers, wood planes, mallets, chisels, an auger, gouges, saws and axes."

 
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