It’s hard to think of things to represent Mormonism that don’t include people. If people images are okay, can we find Arnold Friberg’s original of Lehi and his family finding the Liahona?

Thanks for all your comments (so far — keep ‘em coming). It’s fun for me to think about the items or themes you all have suggested, and the advice given on Muslim sensibilities and what matters most in our own background.

One of the questions about the exhibit would be whether any representation of the human figure was appropriate.

Another would be if any representation of missionary work was appropriate.

Many years ago, the old ornate organ in the Centerville First Ward was being replaced. The installers were going to throw out the old organ, which was in pieces, when the janitor told them to contact my aunt Dorothy, who might want it. She had several pieces made from the ornate wood to hang on the wall to put pictures or curios on. The largest ornate piece sat on the floor in front of various size plants set in a bay window. I have one of the wall pieces and my daughter has the large ornate piece, which she hung on the wall as a headboard for her bed.

So, I’m thinking that something to do with the tabernacle organ would be appropriate for this traveling exhibit.

A “beehive” doorknob from the Salt Lake Temple.

A Minerva Teichart mural of farming the Utah Desert

A representation of the stone pillar at the Joseph Smith Birthplace, with the story and perhaps historicla photographs.

Journal and “grip” of Jacob Spori, from his mission to the Ottoman Empire.