I'm Playing with Squares
Object Details
- Culture/People
- Plains Cree (Prairie Cree)
- Artist/Maker
- Ella Black Bird (Cloud Robe/Cloud Robe Black Bird), Plains Cree (Prairie Cree), 1903-1976
- Collector
- Florence Pulford (Florence Atwood), Non-Indian, 1923-1989
- Previous owner
- Florence Pulford (Florence Atwood), Non-Indian, 1923-1989
- Ann Pulford Wilson (Ann Wilson), Non-Indian
- Sarah Pulford Zweng (Sarah Pulford/Sarah Zweng), Non-Indian
- Seller
- Ann Pulford Wilson (Ann Wilson), Non-Indian
- Sarah Pulford Zweng (Sarah Pulford/Sarah Zweng), Non-Indian
- Presenter/funding source
- Smithsonian Women's Committee
- Collection History
- Collected or purchased in 1974 by quilt collector Florence Pulford (1923-1989); inherited by her daughters Ann Pulford Wilson and Sarah Pulford Zweng; purchased by NMAI from Ann Pulford Wilson and Sarah Pulford Zweng in 2007 with the generous support of the Smithsonian Women's Committee.
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- Date created
- 1974
- Catalog Number
- 26/6381
- Barcode
- 266381.000
- Object Type
- Furnishings (Home)
- Title
- I'm Playing with Squares
- Object Name
- Quilt
- Media/Materials
- Cotton cloth, muslin, thread
- Techniques
- Sewn, pieced, quilted
- Dimensions
- 249.2 x 217.4 cm
- Place
- Rocky Boy's Reservation; Hill County; Montana; USA
- See related items
- Plains Cree (Prairie Cree)
- Furnishings (Home)
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_387093
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6cdf265d6-2f63-4107-bf34-0d2700650712
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