Quilt
date: label: Accession Date
content: 3 Aug 2010
label: Collection Date
content: 1968
name: label: Collector
content: Lillian T. Samuelson
label: Donor Name
content: Lillian T. Samuelson
notes: label: Notes
content: Donor Notes: "Rocky Boy Montana Star hand-pieced and hand-quilted king-size quilt (93" wide x 108" long). Unbleached [off-white] cotton ground with large eight-pointed center star in dark brown, med[ium] brown, khaki, gold and yellow diamonds. Four smaller stars in two shades of brown are in the corners. Dacron filled. Hand-stitched quilting primarily in circular designs with vertical and horizontal lines across the circles, and elongaged "drops" around the outside of the circles. Custom made by Agnes Parker and Mary Jane Henderson, Chippewa-Cree Crafts, Rocky Boy Reservation, Box Elder, Montana. Has original Chippewa-Crafts label 1968. Note: I have seen a number of these used as offerings on graves in the Rocky Boy cemetery."
label: Notes
content: This "Montana star" pattern (an 8 pointed star made with rows of parallelograms) is also known as "morning star". Hand pieced.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Dec 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Box Elder, Rocky Boy's Reservation, Montana, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa-Cree (Annishinabe Ne-i-yah-wahk)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2052523
label: USNM Number
content: E434657-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Quilt
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 285 cm
label: Width
content: 218 cm