Chronicles | Honor a Hmong Many Mystery Cache
Chronicles | Honor a Hmong Many
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CACHE COORDINATES N44°AB.CDE
W88°FG.HIJ
I was caching with QWERTY recently and the topic of this cache came
up in conversation. He then made an astute observation: Of all
the native and ethnic arts we are familiar with, the story-telling
represented in recent Hmong Needlework leaves little to the imagination.
If the story is one of being held at gunpoint, then that is exactly
what is depicted in their needlework. This style of representing
events came about as a direct result of Hmong women switching form
the traditional style of needlework, that was pattern based, to
this new style of detailing an account of their lives in
concentration camps during the Vietnam era in an attempt to
preserve it. You can truly appreciate the harrowing journey this
misunderstood segment of our population has taken throughout
history by studying this needlework enlargement for even a short
period of time.
This cache is meant to give you some insights into their struggle, their culture and their daily lives that we may understand our Hmong neighbors
a little bit better.
The coordinates will bring you to a mural (rendering of an actual
quilt) on the exterior of the Hmong-American Partnership center in
Appleton. You can either answer the questions about the mural,
which is Solve A, or you can answer the questions about their
history and culture which is Solve B.
Solve A mural questions:
There are A Pegasae in China and
H elephants in Burma.
There are B white planes in the
USA and I white planes and
D helicopters in Laos
There are F tanks getting
C bombs dropped on them.
There are G Hmong floating in the
Mekhong River using branches and E
Hmong and guards waiting at the checkpoint to get into the
USA.
There are J buildings behind the
fortress wall in the Hmong homeland.
Solve B cultural questions:
There are B spirits that are
important to Hmong households, C
of which are honored based on calendar years.
The traditional Hmong New Year lasted F weeks and was celebrated in December when the
moon was darkest and the rice was harvested.
The Hmong word for G is
"tsib"
Laos fell to the French in AEIC
AD,000 Hmong soldiers were killed
in the Viet Nam war fighting alongside the US and against the
communists
There are AE different clans in
Hmong society, AH of which are
larger in number than the other J
A Hmong person is believed to have C souls which separate at death. (use smaller
number of 2 possibilities).
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