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Broken Nose

Title: Broken Nose Backup

General Information about Item:

  • Verbal, Legend
  • Language: English
  • Country where Item is from:

Informant Data:

  • Kenneth Moussavian, Male, 20. Mousaavian is a 19’ on the water polo team at Dartmouth College. He was born and raised in Los Altos Hills, and both his parents are from Iran.

Contextual Data:

  • Stories of legends are told for many reasons, and the following legend is told as a figure for people look up to.

Item:

  • Kevin Hoffman made the start for Dartmouth at a tournament hosted by Brown. Hoffman who was the backup goalie was pushed into the lineup after the starter supposedly wandered off to Wellesley College. Hoffman made 37 saves and broke his nose on the first one.

Associated file (a video, audio, or image file):

Informant’s Comments:

  • Moussavian said that the legend of Hoffman is even more memorable, as the whole situation was comical.

Collector’s Comments:

  • Hoffman is a legend because of the attributes he stands for. They are things that the water polo team values, and this is why the legend is probably often told, as the team tries to emulate, such as toughness and being able to perform on command.

Collector’s Name: Brandon Lee

Tags/Keywords:

  • Backup, broken nose, legend

Water Polo CD’s

Title: Freshman Water Polo CD’s

General Information about Item:

  • Customary: Rites of Passage
    • Example: Customary Folklore: Rituals, Traditions
  • Language: English
  • Country where Item is from: USA

Informant Data:

  • Caleb Smith, 20, male. Smith was born in Los Angeles, CA, and is currently on the club water polo team. Although, he had no prior experience before attending Dartmouth, he has already experienced a great deal of success on the team, as Dartmouth took home the Ivy League title last year.

Contextual Data:

  • Often times, to become fully admitted to a group, one must go through some type of trial or rite of passage. These rites can be painful, long, tedious, fun, or goofy (up to the discretion of the group). The following item is one of the goofier rites of passage.

Item:

  • Every freshmen must create a CD and compile 36 songs, such as one Drake song and one Latin American song that no one has heard before to present to the water polo team.

Associated file (a video, audio, or image file):

Informant’s Comments:

  • The informant adds that they intentionally make it difficult for the freshmen and turn them back many times before they finally accept the CD. He jokingly added, “a lot of these kids were born in 2005. They’ve never seen a CD, which makes it hard.”

Collector’s Comments:

  • This group project appears to be a rite of passage designed to both test how dedicated a new member is by assigning them a tedious task and also bring the new members together as they must spend time creating the CD’s all together.

Collector’s Name: Brandon Lee

Tags/Keywords:

  • Rites of passage, playlist, CD

Captain’s Jacket

Title: Water Polo’s Captain’s Jacket

General Information about Item:

  • Material: Clothing
  • Language: English
  • Country where Item is from: USA

Informant Data:

  • Caleb Smith, 20, male. Smith was born in Los Angeles, CA, and is currently on the club water polo team. Although, he had no prior experience before attending Dartmouth, he has already experienced a great deal of success on the team, as Dartmouth took home the Ivy League title last year.

Contextual Data:

  • Many teams have a tradition of passing down items that are significant and have great personal value to them.

Item:

  • It is tradition every year for the Water Polo team to pass down or bequest the Captain’s Jacket from the old captain to the new.

Associated file (a video, audio, or image file):

 

Informant’s Comments:

  • The jacket is from the glory days, back when we were a D1 team.

Collector’s Comments:

  • The jacket is significant because it comes from a time when the team was a D1 team and functions as a symbol of authority and excellence. The handing down of the jacket is like the transition into a new year and passing down of responsibility to the next generation of athletes.

Collector’s Name: Brandon Lee

Tags/Keywords:

  • Bequest, Jacket, Clothing, Material