This is a highland's basket used for harvesting rice, tea, or for marketing.

Internet Resources: Here are some links which will get you started in your quest for knowledge. The Internet is growing at an astounding rate. This list does not include every Website on Vietnam, only the best of the sites that we visited! Ask Asia Website at: http://www.askasia.org/ index.htm Vietnam Online Website at: http://www.vietnamonline.net/ The Library of Congress American Memory (Vietnam Country Study) Web page at: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ frd/cs/vntoc.html Vassar College Site; the Wars for Vietnam; 1945 to 1975 at: http://students.vassar.edu/ ~vietnam/ San Fransisco State University Vietnam Course Website at: http://students.itec.sfsu.edu/ itec815/mcmullin/

Museum Loan Kits: A kit is available for the topic of Vietnam: Artifact Kit - Vietnam Kits can be checked out by Illinois School Teachers free of charge. For a complete list of kit topics please visit: educational loan kits For more information please contact Bob DeHoet at (618) 453-5388 or email him at: drhoet@siu.edu

Printed Resources: The Museum Explorers Library contain books on Vietnam. Books in this special library can be checked out by Museum Explorer teachers free of charge. Please see our Museum Explorers Library Web page.

Previous Explorer Projects: This is a list of Museum Explorer Projects completed by teachers and students in the past three years. There are no previous school projects on Vietnam. To view other school pages please visit our Museum Explorers School Pages.

This is a everyday hat made of latania leaves and pink, green, and purple ribbons. When held up to the light you can see a poem inside the woven leaves.