1900 - 1905 Pocahontas Virginia Gay's Quilt
date: label: date made
content: 1900-1905
name: label: maker
content: Gay, Pocahontas Virginia
notes: label: Description
content: Named the “The Pocahontas Quilt” by the family of the maker, Pocahontas Virginia Gay, it is a wool counterpane that displays both her design and needlework skills. The thirty-six 11-inch blocks are appliquéd with motifs cut mainly from wool fabrics. These are further embellished with embroidery, silk fabrics, ribbon, and details in pencil or ink.
label: Description
content: Pocahontas based her motifs on popular illustrations of sentimental vignettes and Southern heroes, as well as the Victor dog trademark adopted in 1901 by the Victor Talking Machine Company. Proud to be a seventh-generation descendant of Pocahontas and John Rolfe, she included a likeness of the Indian princess as she appears in a 17th-century engraving frequently reproduced in genealogies.
label: Description
content: Pocahontas Gay, or “Aunt Poca” as she was known to family, was born in Virginia on September 5, 1831. She was the daughter of Neil Buchanan Gay and his wife Martha Talley. She never married and remained connected to the family home, Mill Farm in Fluvanna County, Va. She died on October 14,1922.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Quilting
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Quilts
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content: Textiles
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Edward McGarvey
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T11694
label: accession number
content: 225103
label: catalog number
content: T11694
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quilt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric: wool, silk, cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread: cotton, silk, wool (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 68 in x 67 in; 173 cm x 169 cm