Hmong lavender story cloth with king and seven daughters, a farmer couple, and their crops walking into the storehouse.

East Side Freedom Library: Story Cloth

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,…

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