1. Many Hmong customs survived and were nourished and so continued on in the camps, to eventually be brought to the US and other third countries.
2. From a website about knives, this information on the traditional hand made Hmong knives, as is being forged in the blacksmith shop, next to the hospital in BV camp:
The material with which they forge the blade are from bomb/artillery shell, railway track, tank steel, but the most often used is leafspring. They are hand forged in charcoal oven with very simple tools, quenched in water and sometimes in boiling oil.
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