Hi, David! Sorry to have missed the photo you posted on 3/30 earlier. Who are those two guys--and is the plaque they're looking at from Padre
Castaldi's collection?
bajaleraDavid K - 5-12-2004 at 08:02 AM
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Originally posted by bajalera
Hi, David! Sorry to have missed the photo you posted on 3/30 earlier. Who are those two guys--and is the plaque they're looking at from Padre
Castaldi's collection?
bajalera
Good morning Lera,
Please help me out... What photo? I went back on the General board and this board to 3/30... didn't see anything. On 3/29 was a reply on this board
about my latest lost mission hunt... Please copy and paste the url or reply under the photo's thread to bring it to the top... I would be happy to
provide you any details...bajalera - 5-14-2004 at 10:51 AM
Yikes! Should have made a note at the time, but I'll give it a try.
LeraDavid K - 5-14-2004 at 04:52 PM
Erle Stanley Gardner is presenting Dr. Carlos Margain with a collection of arrowheads and spear tips. This was in Mulege about 1964... This was the
incident that gave Jimmy Smith his idea for the Made in Japan story, in Jimmy's book.bajalera - 5-15-2004 at 02:26 PM
Thanks for the ID. Although I saw Erle Stanley at fairly close range a couple of times in the 1960s, when his expeditions camped near us, I never saw
him without a hat on. If it's Mulege, then those projectile points have to be from the collection of Padre Castaldi. My husband, an archaeologist,
photographed this collection and published a report on it (which I illustrated). But when a son and I stopped off at Mulege in the 1970s, the woman
who had been left in charge of the collection was really antsy, and wouldn't talk to us. So I assumed it had been bought by some rich American. Maybe
this was Uncle Erle.
Thanks for that quick response!
bajalera David K - 5-15-2004 at 08:37 PM
Please tell more about your close encounter with 'Uncle Erle'!
The meeting with Dr. Margain was in Mulege because that is where Francisco Munoz' Baja Air Service landed, bringing Margain to meet Gardner.. who then
took Margain up to San Ignacio and on to the San Pablo Canyon giant cave paintings.
The arrowheads came from the San Ignacio area, as I understood the story Choral related to me.
[Edited on 5-16-2004 by David K]bajalera - 5-17-2004 at 02:41 PM
One of Uncle Erle's expeditions made camp a short distance from us at El Coyote on Bahia de Concepcion in 1964, and he cruised by several times in a
motorboat. Other people tooled back and forth past our camp in an assortment of strange-looking vehicles that made my children--then aged 7, 9 and
11--quite envious. (Why can't we get some neat things like that!)
We were apparently invisible to everyone except a woman who hiked down the beach one day. On her way back she smiled at me.
Although Padre Castaldi was assigned to Mulege, it's certainly possible that people from the San Ignacio area contributed to his collection. If anyone
in San Ignacio had assembled a series of projectile points as neatly arranged as those in the photo, however, my husband would surely have heard of
it. (He spent considerable time there during the 1940s and '50s, and in those days this was a very small town). So I'm still convinced that the
plaques in the photo were part of the Castaldi collection.
