Cambodian New Years Celebration (Year of the Tiger)

Cambodian Americans

Asian Americans

Arts, Asian

Folk dance

Body movement

Children

Holidays and festivals

Special events

Performing arts

Clothing and dress

Asian American arts

Community rites

Calendar rites

New Year rites

Dancers

Students

Forty-four color slides. Images from a Cambodian New Years celebration for the Year of the Tiger. Includes child dancers performing traditional dances (e.g. the Dancing Stone, the Celestial Dance, Legend of Mak Thoeung, and the Golden Fish) dressed in traditional Cambodian clothing. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Duval County was a joint venture between the Duval County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was started in 1984 by folklorist David Taylor with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, a series of five two-day seminars to acquaint teachers with the use of folklore and folk arts, in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists. Taylor ran it until 1986. In 1988, Gregory Hansen re-initiated it with minor changes.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1577

1986-04-19

Florida Folklife Program

slides (photographs)

Still Image

S1577

v. 37

S86-2089 - S86-3032

Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project

Taylor, David, 1951-

Cambodian American

Asian American

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