Photographs from Mayko's Story: A Hmong Textile Artist in California
Photos by June Anderson)

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Below: Hmong  textile artist Mayko Xiong of Merced wears her artwork--a jacket embroidered with storycloth motifs. Oakland Farmers Market, 1992. 

Above: One of the many storycloths depicting the Hmong exodus from Laos. Refugees flee Communist soldiers, escaping across the Mekong River into Thailand. Embroidered in 1989. 





Photographs from Honoring the Ancestors: The Woodcarvings of Claude Lockhart Clark

Right: Woodcarver Claude Clark with his handcarved family memorial stool. Oakland, California, 1979. 
(PHOTO: Claude Clark)



Below, left: Walking sticks carved from myrtle, cherry, and live oak by Claude Clark, 1980s. 

(PHOTO: June Anderson)



Below, right: Claude Clark uses live oak to handcraft the handles of his carving tools, such as these knives and chisels.

(PHOTO: June Anderson)




Photographs from Return To Tradition: The Revitalization of Turkish Village Carpets

At right: The village of Suleymankoy in Western Turkey, 1994. (PHOTO: June Anderson)
At left: June Anderson (center) and Dr. Serife Atlihan (far right) of Marmara University in Istanbul visit carpet-weavers in Orselli, in 1994. 
(PHOTO: Linda Robinson)

Above: Master dyer Hasan Sezer lifts indigo-dyed wool from the dye vat. Suleymankoy, 1995.

(PHOTO: June Anderson)

Below: Fatima Ercan spins wool using a drop spindle in the village of Suleymankoy, 1992.
(PHOTO: June Anderson)


 
 


Below: Young weaver with her dowry chest and dowry carpets. Camkalabak, 1992. 
(PHOTO: Harald Bohmer)

Above: The next generation of carpet-weavers: village girls from Camkalabak village, 1992.

(PHOTO: June Anderson)

Below: Oklu (arrow) design from the DOBAG Carpet Cooperative in Ayvacik. Woven by Semiha Yilmaz in the village of Karagomlet, 1996. (PHOTO: June Anderson)


At left: Weaver Bahriye Ercan and her daughter Nurdane. Camkalabak, 1992. (PHOTO: June Anderson)





Photographs from Pieces of Cloth, Pieces of Culture: Tapa from Tonga and the Pacific Islands


Left: A Tongan woman, dressed in a ngatu garmet, stands with a mature hiapo tree.

(PHOTO: Ping-Ann Addo)



Right: Siaoi tasina, barkcloth piece, American Samoa, ca. 1920s. Courtesy of the Department of Anthropology, California Academy of Sciences (CAS 1993-0004-0001)

(PHOTO: Ping-Ann Addo)

Left: Ngatu, barkcloth piece, Veitongo, Tongatapu Island, Kingdom of Tonga, 2001. Courtesy of Ping-Ann Addo.

(PHOTO: Ping-Ann Addo)



Right: Mask face, Papua New Guinea, ca. 1950s. Courtesy of the Department of Anthropology, California Academy of Sciences (CAS 2001-0004-0001)

(PHOTO: Ping-Ann Addo)

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