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Paula J. White; Mary Bighorse; Ina McNeil; Margaret Wood; Ana Cooke Hoffman; Gussie Bento; Judy Toppings; Sheree Bonaparte; Lula Red Cloud; Conrad House; Nancy Naranjo; Harriet Soong; Shirley M. Grady; Jimmie Carole Fife Stewart; Alice Olsen Williams; Rita L. Corbiere; Marlene Sekaquaptewa; Ollie Napesni; and Bernyce K. Courtney
Commissioner
National Museum of the American Indian Exhibitions Department (NMAI Exhibits Department)
Contributor
Paula J. White, Minnesota Chippewa [Leech Lake, Minnesota]
Mary Bighorse (Mary Big Horse), Osage
Ina McNeil (Ina Brown), Hunkpapa Lakota [Standing Rock]
Shirley M. Grady (Lead Woman), Numakiki (Mandan)/Minitari (Hidatsa)/Sioux/Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
Jimmie Carole Fife Stewart, Muscogee Nation (Creek), b. 1940
Alice Olsen Williams (Minaachimo-Kwe), Ontario Ojibwe
Rita L. Corbiere, Anishinaabe [Manitoulin Island, Ontario]
Marlene Sekaquaptewa, Hopi [Bacavi]
Ollie Napesni, Sicangu Lakota [Rosebud Sioux]
Bernyce K. Courtney (B.K. Courtney), Wasco/Tlingit
Collection History
Individual quilt squares commissioned by NMAI and assembled into a single quilt as part of the "To Honor and Comfort: Native Quilting Traditions" exhibit at the NMAI's George Gustav Heye Center in 1997.
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