Department of Cultural and Community Engagement. Division of Arts and Museums. Folk Arts Program Hmong Project files, 1980-1990.

This project began in response to the relocation in Utah of a large number of Hmong and Lahu or Koui (Laotian hill tribe) refugees after the 1975 Vietnamese Peace Fire. Attention was focused on textiles including pa'ndao (flower cloth) embroidery, story cloths, batik, clothing and accessories, basketry and some performance arts. Items were purchased for the State Folk Arts Collection and exhibited at the Salt Lake City Arts Council and in a traveling show called "Flower Cloths & Baskets: The Art of Utah's Indochinese Refugees." For several years, craft sales were held at Christmas time at the Glendinning Gallery allowing artists to sell their work (and that of relatives in refugee camps) to the public.There is also documentation of the Southeast Asian workers at mushroom farms in Fillmore, Millard County. This series contains files related to this project, including photos of the fieldwork and traveling exhibit, relevant outside documents like national geographic magazines and an English-Hmong phrasebook, invoices, checks, and inventories of sales by the project artisans.

Materials in this series were assigned a project number by the Folk Arts Program, consisting of a three-letter code, creation year, a letter indicating format, and the numerical order of the materials.