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English
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The Beehive in Utah Folk Art
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Latter-day lore : Mormon folklore studies
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Salt Lake City
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University of Utah Press
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48-64
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The people of Utah have inherited and preserved a remarkable and largely unexamined treasury of folklore and art. An attractive aspect of this inheritance is the unusual way in which one particular traditional motif appears repeatedly. The recurrent emblem is the beehive, and its use is both striking and pervasive. More importantly, the beehive motif carries with it a wealth of meaning and information about a people’s cultural and psychological connections with the distant past and with its immediate and unique history. [From the text]