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HAIL and the Hmong Cultural Center
on the Hmong Storytelling Project.

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The Hmong Storytelling Project is a pilot program that pairs a younger Hmong artist with and elder artist to learn and create new art work. This project is focused on scoring funeral songs for infants who died before age one (babies do not have a soul until their first birthday) and women who died without a male relative to send her soul back to the ancestors. There other types of funeral songs, or what we consider to be common funeral songs and performances, but these songs were selected because one is performed less often due to lower infant mortality rates and the other has always been rare. With fewer elder artists and a high rate of documentation for the common funeral songs, we wanted to ensure that these rare performances are preserved in an art format that is permanent and accessible to anyone interested in Hmong traditional art.