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Miniature wood Horse carved from a single flat piece of wood Yawata - Uma Painted red with two gold dots for eyes two white dots for nose white painted grooved mouth. Painted gold circle with inner cross next to mouth simulate a bit with white…

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Carved Wooden Horse Miharu - Kinma Miniature horse carved from flat piece of wood painted black with red paint at front of pointed ears. White outlined eyes. Red nostrils and red grooved mouth. White painted circles with inner cross simulate bits.…

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Ceramic Rat on Stand Damaged A: Grey rat with red eyes sitting on hind legs and eating on a bronze colored and brown stand Bronze part is in shape of koban traditional coinage. Left ear broken off. Sticker on the bottom has # 102. B: Left ear grey…

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Two Clay Toys - Turtle and Rabbit A: Molded clay Tortoise painted red with a gold splothch on back and gold and white eyes. Under side is white. B: Molded clay rabbit crouched down painted white with red ears eyes nose. Both have hollow bodies with…

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Straw Horse (Wara Uma) Made of bundles of sedge tied with straw. Body is formed from horizontal loop and is split at back to form two back legs. Two bundles for front legs are looped inside the body and the bundle forming the neck loops around the…

Anna and the King of Siam

Recounts the experiences of Anna Leonowens, who worked for the King of Siam in the 1860s as a translator and tutor to his children.

Anna May Wong

First Asian female to become a movie star.

Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend

Anna May Wong was one of Hollywood's most well-known Chinese American actresses. Between 1919 and 1960, she starred in over fifty movies, sharing billing with Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Marlene Dietrich and Werner Oland. Her life, though, is the…

Anne Chinn Wing

Anne Chinn Wing
Oral History Interview with Anne Chinn Wing