Rodeo Stars Quilt made by Velda Tindall Smith
date: label: date made
content: 1930s - 1950s
name: label: maker
content: Smith, Velda Tindall
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Quilt is white with a faded red border around the edges of each square. Squares are faded white muslin with embroidered autographs of rodeo stars in various colors. There is one autograph per square and each square also includes the hometown of the star and the date it was signed. The donor, Velda Tindall Smith, made this quilt during the winter months when she was not riding rodeo but training horses. She cut the squares and had all the stars from the rodeo sign them and then she embroidered over the signatures and put the quilt together. Velda began her career at age 12 as a trick rider and performed in many rodeos. Velda began a career as a barrel racer when trick riding became less profitable and helped form the Texas Barrel Racing Association. At the age of 54 she won grand champion barrel racer at the 1964 Dallas Fair.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Texas
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: name of sport
content: Rodeo
label: web subject
content: Women
label: Subject
content: Quilting
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Velda Tindall Smith
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0386.01
label: accession number
content: 1983.0386
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0386.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quilt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 80 in x 89 in; 203.2 cm x 226.06 cm