History Theory and Methods at Macalester College
By Michelle Armstrong-Spielberg and Cordelia Jones The object we studied was an 80x75cm story cloth describing Hmong people’s escape from Laos in the 1970s and 1980s. The object was donated to the East Side Freedom Library by Karen James, a woman who received it as a gift from a Hmong family she helped settle in…
The story cloth I was examining was donated to the East Side Freedom Library in 2005 by a retired schoolteacher. The outer stripes that indicated dialect were lavender, light gray/blue, and white. The story has three distinct parts; the first tells of a king with seven daughters and how his youngest daughter, Yer, married Yao,…
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…
P9.2005.110/UNK/ Donated by Charlotte Prentice (P9), a public school teacher, to the East Side Freedom Library in Oct. 2005. Created by unknown maker. The story cloth I examined depicts a Hmong folk tale about a king’s daughter. The upper quarter of the cloth shows the king with his seven daughters, the youngest of whom marries…
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