Indochinese cultures project
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2021
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Title: Indochinese cultures project
Dates: 1958-1984
Collection Number: Consult repository
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 18.0 Linear feet
Repository:
Sonoma State University Library
Rohnert Park, California 94928
Abstract: The Library and the Extended Education Program at Sonoma State University were awarded a grant in 1983 from the National Endowment
for the Humanities for an Indochinese Cultures Project focusing on the diverse peoples and cultures of Cambodia, Laos, and
Vietnam.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research by appointment.
The library can only claim physical ownership of the collection. Users are responsible for satisfying any claimants of literary
property.
Indochinese cultures project. Sonoma State University Library
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection, composed of 101 color photographs with accompanying text and three examples of textiles, is a composite of
project work with the Hmong and Mien Hill people in Merced and Khmer, Khmu, Laotian and Vietnamese people in Northern California.
It also includes conference materials.
A majority of the photographs are 7 x 10", the largest is 13 x 20”.
Additionally, 320 slides from original photographs by Eric Crystal have been converted to digital images on CDROM and depict
Indochinese immigrants in California. The slides are housed along with conference materials in the University Library’s Multimedia
Center [CDROM 1225].
Indochinese Cultures Project.
Indochinese -- California -- Photographs.
Indochinese -- Clothing -- Photographs.
Textile fabrics -- Indochinese.
Indochinese -- California -- Agriculture -- Photographs.
Hmong (Asian people).
Yao (Southeast Asian people).
Khmers. Khmu (Southeast Asian people).
Laotians.
Vietnamese.