I have been discussing some terms thrown around by the Spanish record keepers. They knew what they were talking about and everyone around them did too. We can ...
Hello Rick, I agree with all of the below except perhaps the tahali. It is only my experience, and I would love to see exceptions, but I have never had any...
Ah, mi amigo. I work with a linquist who managed to find, in one of her dictionaries, the definition of tahali as I stated. Must be made of leather. Must be on...
Sorry amigo. Look at the Manuales for Spanish speaking armies. The modern tahal� is the little leather pocket where the soldiers insert the top of the...
Well, seeing that you asked: This (i. e. calacuerda) is the name of a tune, found at the beginning of an 1830 Mexican Drill manual. I also noticed it appear...
Calacuerda is a bugler call: Fix bayonet and charge! It is usually the last desperate call while defending an infantry position. In Spanish orders, "calar...
Thank you! That makes a lot of sense given the context of the word in the manual, which if I remember correctly was something like attack or "calacuerda."...
There may have been a drum beat to it but I have never heard it. Of course, my experience being mostly with the Chilean Navy meant I knew of the call but ever...
Calacuerda is a order to charge towards the enemy at double pass or "paso redoblado", it was in use since early XVIII century to the end of the XIX. It was...
Hello Rick, The definition of tahali as a sword or bayonet carriage makes sense, and Carlos' clarification that the prayer book probably dated from its Muslim...
Just thought we'd post some pics in the Photos section to show you all what we've been up to in Nueva Orleans, Luisiana. We also have a website now for anyone...
Hola! There were regional differences in Spanish colonial furniture. I believe I've seen books on how to make New Mexican furniture, for example. But how...
-David: Thanks for responding but at Los Adaes the unmarried soldados did have some barracks to live in, and I suspect there were some simple furniture like...
David: I understand that you did a costume manual for Mission Purissima, is there anyway I could get a copy of it. Also have you ever been there, some of the...
Hola Richard, Ah, I see. So when you asked about camp furniture, you actually were talking about how to furnish a barracks. Personally, I hate to guess at...
Hola Richard, The costume manual is nearing completion now. And yes, I have been to La Purisima many times. It interprets California in 1822. As I mentioned in...
Richard. I have a postcard of the barracks setup at the Castillo in Puerto Rico. It looks pretty good. I wouldn't comment on how perfect it is, but I will scan...
What was I thinking? Over at Fort St. Jean Baptiste State Historic Park in Natchitoches, Louisiana. The barracks have the raised platform for French...
... Please send a copy of the post card of the barracks set up at the Castillo in Puerto Rico. Also I was looking at some of the Catalonian Volunteers in the...
Like I said before the reports of his behavior don't mesh with his conduct before he came to California and his service afterward. It seems strange to me that...
... Here's a VR quicktime movie of the Barracks of the Guardroom of the Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine with a similar sleeping arrangement. ...
David: I was wondering if you knew of any good books on Spanish colonial furniture, pre 1800 period. I have a good book on spanish colonial blacksmithing and...
Hola Richard, I would like to encourage you again to try and find out what was actually used in Sonora and Texas, rather than rationalizing your choices. If...
David: There was barracks at Los Adaes, all you can see are now of what is left of them are rectangular knolls the same size of small 16' wide trailers. I too...
Richard, As you know, my best understanding of Spanish colonial material culture has to do with California. But since you think that 18th century Sonora and...
Hola Richard, I found on my shelf a book titled "New Mexico Village Arts" by Roland F. Dickey (Albuquerque, The University of New Mexico Press, 1949). No doubt...
Richard, the Casa Cordoba in downtown Tucson, one of the few remaining original buildings not destroyed in the "progress" of 1960 Tucson, has a rope bed that ...
Rick: I am glad you mentioned the sparesly furnitured houses in the southwest and the floors being like concrete. I do not recall were I saw or read this,...
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