QUILT INDEX RECORD

12-8-402

Who documented this quilt?

Michigan Quilt Project; Michigan State University Museum Collection; Quilts and Health

Where are the records for this quilt housed?

Michigan State University Museum

Michigan Quilt Project Number:

94.0086 AIQP

If this quilt is owned by a museum, enter the accession number:

7589.1

Object label:

Broken Star
Pearl Spotted Tail
Sioux, Parmalee, South Dakota
1994
Collection of Michigan State University Museum acc.#7589.1

Essay:

An especially accomplished Sioux quilter, Pearl Spotted Tail of Parmalee, South Dakota, makes variations of star quilts for many giveaway occasions and for sale. She tells of making Broken Star quilts such as this one, "when you are sad or when your heart is broken."

From To Honor and Comfort Native Quilting Traditions.

Owner's name for the quilt:

Broken Star

Names for quilt's pattern in common use:

Lone Star

Quilt top made by:

Tail, Pearl Spotted

Quilted by:

Tail, Pearl Spotted

If you are the quilt owner, how did you acquire this quilt?

Purchased the quilt

Where the quilt was made, city:

Parmalee

Where the quilt was made, state:

South Dakota (SD)

Time period:

1976-1999

When was the quilt finished?

c1994

Quilt is presently used as:

Museum collection

Quiltmaker's gender:

Female

Quiltmaker's city:

ParmaLee

Quiltmaker's state:

South Dakota (SD)

Quiltmaker's ethnic background/tribal affiliation:

Native American Souix

This is a:

Finished quilt

How wide is the quilt?

82"

How long is the quilt?

86"

Quilt's condition:

Excellent/like new

Describe the borders:

3 3/4" inner border.

Fiber types used to make the quilt top:

Cotton

Piecing techniques used to make the quilt top:

Machine Piecing

Materials used to make the back:

Cotton or polyester blend

Number of pieces of fabric in the quilt back:

2

What is the width of the binding (measure on the top only)?

less than a half inch

What kind of filling is used in the quilt?

Polyester

How are the layers held together?

Hand quilting

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 1:

6

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 2:

4

Quilting designs used, overall motifs:

Elbow/fan

Exhibitions where this quilt was displayed:

To Honor and Comfort: Native Quilting Traditions, SITES; August 1, 1997-December 30, 1997, George Gustav Heye Center in National Museum of the American Indian, New York, NY; April 19-October 18, 1998, MSU Museum, East Lansing, MI; March 13-June 6, 1999, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA; July 3rd-September 26th, 1999, The Cleveland Museum of Natural History , Cleveland, OH; October 23, 1999-January 16, 2000, Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, MT; February 12-May 7, 2000, Bishop Museum-The State Museum of Natural and Cultural History , Honolulu, Honolulu, HI; June 3-August 27, 2000, Washington State Historical Society, Tacoma, WA; September 23-December 31, 2000, Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM; January 13-April 8, 2001, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ.

Related items such as diaries, obituaries, wills, household inventories, or pictures of the quiltmaker:

To Honor and Comfort: Native Quilting Traditions (1997), page 77.

Source of the information on this quilt:

Museum employee

Ownership of this quilt is:

Public- Michigan State University Museum

Quilt owner's name:

Michigan State University Museum

Quilt owner's city:

East Lansing

Quilt owner's county:

Ingham

Quilt owner's state:

Michigan (MI)

How was this quilt acquired?

Purchase

Tell the story of how the quilt was obtained:

3-18-1994, Pearl Spotted Tail

Access and copyright information:

Restricted

How did the quiltmaker participate in the creation of the quilt?

Made entire quilt

Who photographed this quilt?

Mark Eifert

Copyright holder:

Michigan State University Museum