VHM_0012

Descriptive title

Black Bronze Pot

Phase(s)

Land Reform

Date

18th century

Object type(s)

Cooking

Description

This black, bronze pot from the 18th century has been in Nguyễn Ngọc Tuyết's family for hundreds of years and has traveled with them through multiple forced displacements: from their home village of Dương A to Nam Định during the First Indochina War, to Saigon after the Geneva Accords was signed and Vietnam was divided at the 17th parallel, and then to the U.S. with the end of the Vietnam War.

Collection

Vietnamese Heritage Museum

Current location

Vietnamese Heritage Museum

Rights description

Object donated to the Vietnamese Heritage Museum by Nguyễn Ngọc Tuyết

Data license

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

Creator(s)

Doug Daniels

Timeline

Black Bronze Pot origin

Duong A Village, Vietnam

Used by Nguyễn Ngọc Tuyết's family in their home village of Dương A since the 18th century
Black Bronze Pot traveled to Nam Định

Nam Dinh, Vietnam

Resettlement

Carried along with Nguyễn Ngọc Tuyết's family when they were displaced from their home village of Dương A to Nam Định in 1948 during the First Indochina War
Black Bronze Pot Traveled to Hanoi

Hanoi, Vietnam

Resettlement

Brought to Hanoi where Nguyễn Ngọc Tuyết's family resettled in 1951
Black Bronze Pot traveled to Saigon

Saigon, Vietnam

Resettlement

Brought to Saigon where Nguyễn Ngọc Tuyết's family migrated after the Geneva Accords was signed and Vietnam was divided at the 17th parallel in 1954
Black Bronze Pot traveled to the United States

United States

Resettlement

Brought to U.S. where Nguyễn Ngọc Tuyết's family relocated in 1982 after the Vietnam War
Black Bronze Pot Donated to the Vietnamese Heritage Museum

Garden Grove, CA, USA

Donated to the Vietnamese Heritage Museum by Nguyễn Ngọc Tuyết in 2023