China’s Yunnan province is home to numerous ethnic groups. This exhibition focuses on a type of fabric art found among several peoples living in the southern parts of this province—the Jinuo, Dai, Hani, and Bulang—featuring fieldwork, writing, photography, and curation by Wuerxiya (ACC 2022). Each of these groups is one of the fifty-five minority nationalities recognized by the government of China. The shoulder bags exhibited were collected in December 2023 in parts of Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture and Pu’er Prefecture-Level City. This is a tropical and mountainous region famous for the unique Pu’er tea grown there and for the richness and diversity of its local cultures. The shoulder bags presented and discussed in this exhibition are emblematic of that cultural richness. They are aesthetically complex, but still practical. A shared cultural item, shoulder bags are both a form held in common across groups and—in the ways that each are made and decorated—a way of differentiating groups and expressing identity.