History Theory and Methods at Macalester College
Rena Zhang and Nathaniel Lay For our object analysis I and Nathaniel investigated a palm-sized, hard-cover travel guide donated to the East Side Freedom Library in 2002. The guide introduces the town of Kaili in Guizhou Province, China, which is home to a large number of Chinese Hmong (Miao) people. Using bilingual (Chinese-English) text and…
This Hmong story cloth, with accession number 2002.12.5.433, is about five feet tall and made from what appears to be some sort of colored yarn. It depicts a rural Hmong village in Laos where people are working peacefully until they are attacked in the context of the Laotian Civil War and forced to become refugees….
Written by Claire Menard, Macalester College During our trip to the Hmong Freedom Library, I became interested in a Japanese children’s book called ”Saru to Tora” (”The Monkey and The Tiger”). The book is clearly for (Japanese-speaking) children due to its strong use of images, lack of Kanji (complex Chinese characters), and simple sentence structure. It…
Sofia Parmelee Jonathan Goldman HIST 290-01 Story Cloth Blog Entry While examining the Hmong story cloth, we identified several physical and cataloged features that illuminated the object as a primary source. First off, the cloth is the size of a blanket at 94 X 137 CM. The cloth is categorized under the “EA” category in…
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