Don Bradley reprints a photograph of a surviving Kinderhook Plate.

Date
2020
Type
Graphic / Diagram
Source
Don Bradley
LDS
Hearsay
Late
Forgery
Secondary
Reference

Photo of surviving Kinderhook Plate, in Don Bradley and Mark Ashurst-McGee, "'President Joseph Has Translated a Portion': Joseph Smith and the Mistranslation of the Kinderhook Plates," in Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith’s Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity, ed. Michael Hubbard Mackay, Mark Ashurst-McGee, and Brian M. Hauglid (Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 2020), 453 (Figure 17.1)

Scribe/Publisher
University of Utah Press
People
Mark Ashurst-McGee, Don Bradley
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

[Photo caption]: Kinderhook plate. Sole surviving Kinderhook plate, one of six brass plates fabricated in 1843, planted in a Native American burial mound, and then unearthed as part of an archaeological hoax modelled on the gold plates of the Book of Mormon. Left: Front. Right: Back. Chicago History Museum, Chicago, Illinois.

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