Exhibitions

The text reads Shoulder Bags & Ethnic Identity, and an image of a colorful bag with pompoms is featured. The bag is a white fabric and the decorations are multicolored.
On-site • Herman B Wells Library Scholars' Commons

Shoulder Bags and Ethnic Identity in Southern Yunnan, China

Explores the ways that handmade fabric bags are simultaneously aesthetic objects, practical items of dress, and signs of membership in specific ethnic groups.

February 3rd – May 19th 2025