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Photo, Print, Drawing Wedding of Sopheap Kuth and Pen Hing at the home of Pen Hing's mother, Mrs. Chounn Chen, Lowell, Massachusetts

About this Item

Title

  • Wedding of Sopheap Kuth and Pen Hing at the home of Pen Hing's mother, Mrs. Chounn Chen, Lowell, Massachusetts

Names

  • Lueders-Booth, John, 1935- (Research team member)
  • DeNatale, Douglas (Research team member)
  • Taylor, David Alan, 1951- (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • September 26, 1987

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Massachusetts
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Documentary photographs
  • -  United States -- Massachusetts -- Lowell

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography
  • Documentary photographs

Notes

  • -  Index data: WEDDING OF SOPHEAP KUTH AND PEN HING, HOME OF MRS. CHOUNN CHEN, SEPTEMBER 26, 1987 . 1, Underexposed; 2-6, Women separating fibers from gourd to be used in marriage ceremony; 7-8, Portraits of Mrs. Chounn's son "Little Snail" against cloth backdrop; 9, Portrait of David Taylor taken by Jack Lueders-Booth, against backdrop; 10, David Taylor and Little Snail; 11, Group of four boys, including Mrs. Chounn's sons Little Snail on left, and Big Snail in front; 12, Doug DeNatale getting names of musicians in band; 13-15, Same as 2-6; SEPTEMBER 27, 1987. 16-17, Musicians playing; 18-19, Pen Hing washing Sopheap Kuth's feet; 20-22, Sopheap Kuth kneeling on cushion at beginning of marriage ceremony; 23, Sarann Kong, female singer at microphone; 24-27, Views of Sarann Kong and male singer dancing; 28, Pen Hing entering room; 29-36, Marriage ceremony.

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1987/042: LFP-DT-244

Source Collection

  • Lowell Folklife Project collection (AFC 1987/042)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Online Format

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Credit line: Lowell Folklife Project collection (AFC 1987/042), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Lueders-Booth, John, Douglas Denatale, and David Alan Taylor. Wedding of Sopheap Kuth and Pen Hing at the home of Pen Hing's mother, Mrs. Chounn Chen, Lowell, Massachusetts. Massachusetts Lowell United States, 1987. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1987042_dt_244/.

APA citation style:

Lueders-Booth, J., Denatale, D. & Taylor, D. A. (1987) Wedding of Sopheap Kuth and Pen Hing at the home of Pen Hing's mother, Mrs. Chounn Chen, Lowell, Massachusetts. Massachusetts Lowell United States, 1987. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1987042_dt_244/.

MLA citation style:

Lueders-Booth, John, Douglas Denatale, and David Alan Taylor. Wedding of Sopheap Kuth and Pen Hing at the home of Pen Hing's mother, Mrs. Chounn Chen, Lowell, Massachusetts. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1987042_dt_244/>.