Embroidery

Title

Embroidery

Subject

Vietnamese American Refugee Camp

Description

Two embroidered Refugee camp commemorative cloths. A: White cotton with hemed edges and a multicolored scene of two women in long robes doing a fan dance. At the bottom in English and in cusive script is: "Sungai Besi Refugee Camp Kualumpur Malaysia 1990." B: Black man made cloth hemmed edges with a multicolored scene of a large white bird with a red feather on its head and is holding two smaller birds. They are among pink lilies and there is a sun in clouds above them. In the right hand corner is a white patch with red print lettering in English: "Vietnamese Refugee Sungei Besi Camp Malaysia - 90"

Identifier

1998.103.006

Collection