Costumes and materials from Cambodia were not available in the United States in the early days of the community. Everything had to be made by hand from memory. Leng Hang, pictured here adding beads to a shawl used in Cambodian classical court dance and weddings, had been trained as a dancer and actor while in the Cambodian Army in the 1960s. She founded the Cambodian Arts Preservation Group in 1983 in Long Beach.
