“The mouth is too broad compared to the death mask. If shown this picture, I would never have suspected it of being Joseph Smith.” Brent Ashworth, a Provo collector and dealer of Mormon ...

precise correspondences between Smith’s death mask and the daguerreotype,” Weber says, “including asymmetries of Joseph’s face and bone structure evidenced in the mask.” Another clue ...

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Joseph Smith, really looked like. One Latter-day Saint artist believes he may have found the answer. Digital artist Chad Winks used Smith's death mask to capture what he believes is an accurate ...

Smith, who is Joseph III’s oldest daughter ... But we also need to be a little careful, because some really early images of the Joseph death mask suggest that his chin might have been damaged ...

if their death masks are any indication. All in all, the polarized response to the photo reveals less about Joseph Smith than it does about us. Joseph Smith is a deeply divisive figure ...

along with Smith’s death mask. Thinking it could be a different Smith relative — Joseph’s brother Hyrum, for instance, who was gunned down the same day as the church founder — or some ...

this is the only one that matches up forensically with what we know of Joseph Smith's anatomy," Tracy said. He says his forensics team compared anatomical points in the photo with a death mask ...

(RNS) — A great-great-grandson of Joseph Smith Jr. found the Mormon ... experts to compare the daguerreotype to Smith’s death mask. The company reported back that 19 of 21 measured features ...

Joseph Smith, who was convicted of killing 11-year-old Carlie Brucia in 2004, died in prison at age 55 on Monday, according to the state Attorney General's Office. The cause of death was unknown.