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Encyclopedia > Cross of Coronado

The Cross Of Coronado is an ornamental cross sought after by the ficticious movie character, Indiana Jones, in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Jones attempts to prevent a private collector from keeping the cross, believing that it "belongs in a museum." As a boy, Indiana is unsuccessful in his attempt, but it is in this attempt that he acquires his trademarked hat. Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones Indiana Jones is a fictional bullwhip-toting, fedora-wearing archaeologist with an overdeveloped ophidiophobia (fear of snakes). ... Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a 1989 film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott, Julian Glover, Alison Doody, River Phoenix and John Rhys-Davies. ... A museum is typically a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education enjoyment, the tangible and intangible evidence of people and their environment. ...


Years later, as an adult, Jones successfully steals the cross back from the collector. To do so, he takes it, leaps from a sinking ship, and swims to shore. In doing so, he achieves his ambition and has it placed in a museum.


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In command of the expedition was the ambitious governor of a Mexican province, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado.
And these kinds of rituals are always regarded as private, and so when Coronado came in while these rituals were in progress, Zuni elders sketched a cornmeal line between Coronado's men and the people at Zuni, a line which Coronado was not supposed to cross.
Coronado quickly over-ran the town, seized their food, set up a wooden cross and demanded that they immediately convert to Christianity.
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