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The fabric of their lives
Beauty, tragedy captured in Hmong needlework
By Carol Guensburg
of the [Milwaukee, Wisconsin] Journal Sentinel staff
June 16, 1996
Black-clothed men and women grinding corn with a crude machine in a
mountain village in northern Laos. A baby strapped to its mother's back as
she feeds chickens. A warplane strafing a row of huts. More peasants, with
green bamboo poles tucked under their arms to float to safety across the
silvery Mekong River. Guards wielding ...
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