Box T2013-474-475.2

Scope and Contents S-Santa Fe travel and tour information: news clippings, hotel brochures, city guides, sightseeing brochures and state guide; Saudi Arabia: information on Haifa Faisal Collection of Saudi Arabian Traditional Arts and the John Topham Collection with its accompanying publication Traditional Arts of Saudi Arabia-Topham Collection offered for sale. Scandinavia: tour proposal; exhibition correspondence and information-Danish Ceramic Design, Sami Daidda (presented at Mingei International), Georg...

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S-Slovakia: information on Helene Baine Cincebeaux Collection of costumes-includes 10 color Xerox images and Threads magazine article by Helene Baine Cincebeaux. Slovenia: letter re: Slovenian exhibition and an appointment to visit Mingei International. Soviet Union: preliminary correspondence re: Folk Art of the Soviet Union exhibition; later correspondence; pamphlets and postcards on various Soviet republics; publication – State Museum of Ethnography of the Peoples of the USSR.

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S-Soviet Union continued: invitation and information on Folk Art of the Soviet Union at San Francisco CAFAM; tour brochure; inquiry about presenting exhibition of Russian lacquer boxes at Mingei International-includes 6 color photos. Sweden: correspondence re: Martha Longenecker’s trip to Sweden and possible exhibition of Swedish folk art at Mingei International; film list; article about Swedish Lapland. Thailand: information on Thai exhibition.

Scope and Contents T-Turkey: inquiry about presenting Turkish coin purse exhibition at Mingei International-includes 18 color 4x6” photos of exhibition installed at another location; thank you note for tour of Turkey’s southwestern coast; Treasures of Turkiye tour book. Turkestan: correspondence re: exhibition and publication-Turkestan on the Silk Route-includes 18 color slides of objects and 19 b/w Xerox images of locations, costumes, etc. Ukraine: announcement from Ivan Honchar Museum, Kiev, of formation of...

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V-Venezuela: exhibition proposal-Visual Magic—The Folk Carvers of Venezuela-includes information on the artists in the exhibition with images of their work. Vietnam-information and performance proposal from Thang Long Water Puppet Theater; speaker information for Le Ly Hayslip, founder of East Meets West Foundation.

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Miscellaneous documents found in box T2013-474-475: note and flyer recommending exhibition, Landscape Kimonos by Itchiku Kubota; letter from San Diego Consular Corps with directory; letter requesting information from Mingei International; assorted exhibition brochures from Fred and Barbara Meiers-includes textiles, baskets, kites and assorted folk arts from West Africa, Indonesia, Korea, Japan, Turkey, Central Asia, China and USA.