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Box 58

 Container

Contains 11 Results:

Dog stories of South Africa Mormon missionary / Steve Stotts, 1983

 Item — Box: 58, Folder: 9
Identifier: FA 1 Item 636
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Steve Stotts for his Winter 1983 English 392 class. About the South Africa mission and its problems, and how these have given rise to "dog stories". Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, informant items. Items include dog killing stories, missionary gets the best of the dog, the dog gets the best of the missionary, and more.

Dates: 1983

Utah county grave markers / Kristine S. Sturgill, 1980

 Item — Box: 58, Folder: 10
Identifier: FA 1 Item 637
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Kristine S. Sturgill for her Fall 1980 English 391 class. A collection of headstones and epitpaphs in Utah county, particularly those to do with the Masons. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, and collected epitaphs. Epitaphs include sayings about the sun, the sun and the open book, the sun and the rose, the sun and handsclaps, and the sun and the all-seeing eye.

Dates: 1980

Your huddled masses yearning to breath free / Phyllis Summers, 1981

 Item — Box: 58, Folder: 11
Identifier: FA 1 Item 638
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Phyllis Summers for her Fall 1981 English 391 class. About the Indo-Chinese refugees and their culture, and relationship with American sponsors. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include the myth and folk tales of the refugees, refugee traditions, refugee humor, arts and crafts, church refugee relationship, sponsor refuge relationships, and more.

Dates: 1981

Family traveling songs / Ruth Suzanne Smith, 1978

 Item — Box: 58, Folder: 1
Identifier: FA 1 Item 628
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Ruth Suzanne Smith for her Fall 1978 English 391 class. A collection of the songs that the author's family sung while traveling. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include echo and repititious songs, counting songs, action songs, and more.

Dates: 1978

Polack jokes among BYU students / Sharla Smith, 1982

 Item — Box: 58, Folder: 2
Identifier: FA 1 Item 629
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Sharla Smith for her Winter 1982 English 392 class. About the types and prevalence of Pollack jokes at BYU. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include jokes depicting Pollacks as stupid, Pollacks and feces, Pollacks and garbage, and jokes portraying the ineptness with modern equipment and technology.

Dates: 1982

Navajo skin walker tales among the Mormons / Thomas S. Smith, 1980

 Item — Box: 58, Folder: 3
Identifier: FA 1 Item 630
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Thomas S. Smith for his Winter 1980 English 391 class. About the folklore of the Navajo skinwalkers and witchcraft tales among Mormons. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include Human wolves' habits, human wolves running at high speeds, human wolves detecting conversation about themselves, the Navajo medicine men and hexes, human wolves and who they are.

Dates: 1980

Hawaiian superstitions / Darlene Spencer, 1981

 Item — Box: 58, Folder: 4
Identifier: FA 1 Item 631
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Darlene Spencer for her Winter 1980 English 392 class. A collection of Hawaiian superstitions and and their purpose in Hawaiian society. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include superstitions of god and goddesses, the superstitions of men and the body, the superstitions of places and buildings, the superstitions of the Hawaiian language, evil spirits, and luck.

Dates: 1981

Focused field project : the active bearer of traditions in the summer camp / Nathaniel Ad Spofford, 1978

 Item — Box: 58, Folder: 5
Identifier: FA 1 Item 632
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Nathaniel Ad Spofford for his Winter 1978 English 391 class. About the folk culture of youth summer camps. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include various songs from summer camps, including Clementine, Swimming, I'm a Nut, and more.

Dates: 1978

Unusual proselyting techniques of LDS missionaries / Gregory A. Stevens, 1979

 Item — Box: 58, Folder: 6
Identifier: FA 1 Item 633
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Gregory A. Stevens for his Spring 1979 English 392 class. About the way that LDS missionaries preach, and how it is different from other faiths. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include missionary techniques for the amusement of Elders, missionary techniques to increase effectiveness of work, and more.

Dates: 1979

Miracle healings of the Mormon culture / Kent Stone, 1981

 Item — Box: 58, Folder: 7
Identifier: FA 1 Item 634
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Kent Stone for his Fall 1981 English 392 class. About the Mormon view of their God and the miracles that come from Him. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include various miracles such as a young child saved from choking, a cripple healed, a deaf missionary, a man raised from the dead, a deaf infant healed, a man is cured of cancer, a small girl regains an ear, and more.

Dates: 1981