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Sewing Stories of Displacement Feb 16, 2020 through May 1, 2021
Sewing Stories of Displacement
Museum of International Folk Art

The Train Station, 1979. This gabba, chain-stitched embroidery on felted wool, illustrates the forced migration of Kahuta residents after the area became a site for the national atomic bomb project in 1976. Unknown artist, Pakistan. MOIFA, IFAF Collection, FA.1985.464.13.


For more information, contact Carrie Hertz at (505) 476-1222 , carrie.hertz@state.nm.us

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