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Show Folk Material 137 Culture This interesting symbol persists in the north-south movement from Fairview to Richfield and represents the adoption of non-Scandinavian symbols for the graphics of death. One variant in the large cemetery west of Spring City (fig. 5) bears the inscription "we hope to meet again," verbalizing the hoped-for reunion inherent in the handclasp itself. An ornate stone in Manti (fig. 6), unlike the previous example, does not portray the index finger extended. There are three or four stylistic variants of the position of the index and middle fingers in burial handclasps in Utah. Another burial motif found occasionally in Mormon cemeteries is the open Book of Mormon. One marker in Gunnison (fig. 7) portrays the book as symbol of Benjamin Franklin Christensen's belief in the doctrines of the Mormon church, but the open Book of Mormon on P. O. Hansen's M Fig. 4. Group of lamb markers in Fairview cemetery. Fig. 5. Handclasp on gravestone in Spring City cemetery. • |
