Rife with symbolism, asymmetry, innovation, and improvisation, this quilt attributed to a white Wisconsin maker exhibits many of the criteria some scholars have suggested are characteristic of African American quilts.

Pattern: 
Pictorial
Maker: 
Mary Eliza Crownbridge
Dated
1869
Possibly made in
Wisconsin
United States
66
77.75
IQM, Ardis and Robert James Collection
2009.039.0002