This official military decoration was awarded by President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu to Lieutenant Colonel Daniel F. Schungel, U.S. Army Special Forces, in recognition of his outstanding bravery and service during the Vietnam War.
After resettling in the U.S. as a refugee, Diêu Đức Huỳnh, who now resides in Louisiana, later returned to Vietnam and acquired this scale as part of his effort to collect his family heirlooms.
This betel nut container (cơi trầu cau), preserved as a family heirloom, was used in preparing and serving betel quid (betel leaf and areca nut). It was central to Vietnamese marriage traditions, where the groom’s family presented trầu cau to the bride’s family during proposals, and the act of chewing produced a red juice symbolic of love and union.
This betel nut container (cơi trầu cau), a family heirloom from Diêu Đức Huỳnh’s family, was traditionally used in Vietnamese marriage ceremonies, where the groom’s family presented betel leaf and areca nut (trầu cau) to the bride’s family to the bride’s family as a symbol of respect and union.
After resettling in the U.S. as a refugee, Diêu Đức Huỳnh, currently residing in Louisiana, later returned to Vietnam and acquired this scale as part of his effort to preserve tangible reminders of Vietnamese daily life.
A traditional bronze balance scale, commonly used by food vendors in Vietnam to weigh produce and other goods in village market. Represents early trade practices in rural and urban Vietnamese markets before modern weighing devices.
This shirt was worn by Quân Đinh during his escape from Vietnam on June 19, 1988. When the boat’s helmsman collapsed, Quân and another passenger steered the refugee vessel through a storm. The next day, their boat was chased by armed Thai pirates but escaped unharmed.
After the communist government’s land reform, the family house was requisitioned. Surviving heirlooms, including tbe chiết yêu bowl, were relocated to the từ đường họ Bùi (Bùi family ancestral hall), which later became the shrine to Bùi Viện, the 19th-century reformer and diplomat.
Ông Bùi Chiên, the eldest son of Cụ Ông Bùi Thuần, returned to Trình Phố to perform a ritual at the ancestral hall, during which he reclaimed two bát chiết yêu and four ceramic dishes that had long been preserved there. He brought these heirlooms to the United States, where they continued to serve in ancestor worship.