Hector Lee field recording collection, 1945-1947.

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Hector Lee field recording collection, 1945-1947.

Field recordings of Hector Lee.

2 boxes (20 sound discs)

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Lee, Hector, 1908-1992

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Hector Lee completed his MA from Berkeley in the 1930s and became an instructor at the University of Utah. In the early 1940s, Lee, along with Austin Fife and Wayland Hand, conducted extensive fieldwork on the Mormon legend of the Three Nephites, which is why Lee, Fife, and Hand were jokingly called "The Three Nephites" by their friends. In a 1985 Newsletter of the Folklore Society of Utah article, Dave Stanley wrote: " In 1942, Lee published an article: "The Three Nephites: A Disap...