Photo Documentary: Building a Hmong House

During 1995-96, the Southeast Asia Community Resource Center participated ina nationwide project, "Hmong in America," organized by the Chippewa Museumin Wisconsin, and funded by the National Endowment of the Humanities.As a collateral project, California State University Sacramento's Departmentof Anthropology sponsored a community-university project: the building of a2/3 size Hmong house in the CSUS Anthropology Museum.

The pictures that follow document the building of the house, which involvedelders from the community working with their children and grandchildren(CSUS students) to build a house inside the museum. New Info.

The project's director was Carol Dunstan (cduns@cwnet.com).

Images of Hmong in Thailand

Hmong young man with neckring (Khek Noy, 1986)
Pounding rice (Bua Chan, 1986)
Hmong villagers, American Hmong, and Polaroid (1986)
Pepsi in Thai and Chinese (Bangkok, 1986)
Legs of the sun (b&w) (Northern Thailand, 1986)
White Hmong sashes and coin bags (Khek Noy, 1986)
Skeptical Hmong girl (Bua Chan, 1986)
Sewing and talking (1986)
Young Hmong woman sewing "ua paj ntaub" (Bua Chan, 1986)
Hmong boys playing (1986)
Hmong boy on a village road (1986)
Mother, baby, and formula (1986)
Green Hmong skirts on a line (1986)
White Hmong girl from the back (Khek Noy, 1986)
Hmong boys on a rice pounder (Doi Pui, 1986)
Hmong boy on bamboo stilts (1986)
Little women (1986)
Shielding the corn from birds and rats (1986)
singing kwv-txhiaj (Khek Noy, 1986)