94. Adams and Chavez (Domínguez's translators and editors) defined the term first fruits as follows: " Primicias . A voluntary Annual offering from the harvests and herds, seldom requested from the poor and never from the Indians" (p. 355). Yet Domínguez's entry on "How He [the Franciscan] Acquires Necessities" for Picuris stated, "Although it comes out the same everywhere according to the usual method and by exchange, this father says that here, in order not to deprive himself of the little grain he acquires by harvests and first fruits and perhaps an obvention or two, most of it comes from the royal alms in chocolate, linen, or winding sheets." Domínguez, The Missions , p. 96.

95. Domínguez, The Missions , pp. 192, 193.

96. "The Cubero document does not say whether the convent was actually south of the church or viceversa; because the south would be the better protected side, we can suppose almost with certainty that the Fathers used the higher church structure as a wind and weather break on the north. Invariably they chose the sheltered side for their convents in all the missions. Chavez, "Santa Fe Church and Convent Sites," p. 93. Acoma is another very apparent example of the pattern Chavez described.

97. Domínguez, The Missions , p. 27.

98. Ibid., p. 48.

99. Ibid., p. 93.

97. Domínguez, The Missions , p. 27.

98. Ibid., p. 48.

99. Ibid., p. 93.

97. Domínguez, The Missions , p. 27.

98. Ibid., p. 48.

99. Ibid., p. 93.