QUILT INDEX RECORD

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Who documented this quilt?

Michigan Quilt Project; Black Diaspora Quilt History Project

Where are the records for this quilt housed?

Michigan State University Museum

Michigan Quilt Project Number:

86.0690

Owner's name for the quilt:

Seven Sisters

Names for quilt's pattern in common use:

Medallion

When was the form filled out?

6/14/1986

Quilt top made by:

Snipes, Maria

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

Inherited

Where the quilt was made, state:

Alabama (AL)

When was the quilt started?

1900

When was the quilt finished?

1900

Quiltmaker's gender:

Female

Quiltmaker's state:

Alabama (AL)

Quiltmaker's maiden name:

Ingersoll

Quiltmaker's birth date:

19th century

Quiltmaker's date and place of death:

1942

Quiltmaker's ethnic background/tribal affiliation:

African American

Quiltmaker's occupation:

Housewife

Quiltmaker's father's ethnic/tribal background:

African American

Quiltmaker's mother's ethnic/tribal background:

African American

Quiltmaker's spouse's/spouses' and/or partner's/partners' ethnic/tribal background:

African American

Quiltmaker's spouse's/spouses' and/or partner's/partners' occupation:

Blacksmith, shop 27 Piedmont Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia

Number of children:

5

How many of the quiltmaker's children were girls?

1

How many of the quiltmaker's children were boys?

4

Describe the item:

Pillow top

How wide is the quilt?

25"

Describe the quilt's layout:

Medallion or framed center

Fiber types used to make the quilt top:

Cotton

Piecing techniques used to make the quilt top:

Hand Piecing

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 1:

5per 1inch

Exhibitions where this quilt was displayed:

Hartford Memorial Baptist Church Quilting Show, Detroit, MI, 10/1986

Person filling out this form is:

Quilt owner

Source of the information on this quilt:

Granddaughter of quiltmaker

Ownership of this quilt is:

Private

Quilt owner's name:

Bernice Fitzpatrick Green

Quilt owner's city:

Detroit

Quilt owner's county:

Wayne

Quilt owner's state:

Michigan (MI)

How was this quilt acquired?

Inheritance

Tell the story of how the quilt was obtained:

Maria Ingersoll Snipes Grandmother; Mary Elizabeth Snipes Fitzpatrick (mother), Bernice Fitzpatrick Green daughter

Access and copyright information:

Restricted

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

Made entire quilt top

Copyright holder:

Michigan State University Museum