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Show 144 Utah Historical Quarterly Although folk houses in the Sanpete-Sevier area vary widely in architectural style, many of them display motifs common to other parts of the state. These motifs are seen in such embellishments as brick trim above windows. One small Fairview house is embellished with a brick trim (fig. 22) prevalent in other parts of Utah, such as American Fork. A similar trim on a Manti house (fig. 23) is of the same basic motif, displaying again an absence of positive Scandinavian symbols, since similar trim is prevalent all along the Wasatch Front. Many other folk artifacts, such as hay derricks (fig. 24), some of which are still operable in the Sanpete-Sevier area, deserve further study, not merely as items of material culture but as symbols of the values of a past generation. 32 It must be noted again, however, that the folk material culture of the area does not overtly display distinct Scandinavian influ32 As a typology of western hay derricks, Austin L. Fife and James M. Fife's " H a y Derricks of the Great Basin and U p p e r Snake River Valley," is admirably done. See Western Folklore 7 (July 1948) : 225-39. The authors provide a solid distribution study as well as dealing with morphology. There is, however, little discussion of what the derricks may have meant (and mean) symbolically. Fig. 19. Stone house in Manti with second-story door. Fig. 18. Central-hall house south of Fairview. |
