Shawl or Scarf

Harriet Pillow Acuff

About 1820-1860

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Large quilt in a variation of the "Whig's Defeat" pattern, on a cream-colored cotton ground a grid of twelve squares each enclosed in a pattern of double bands of repeating nailhead, or dogtooth, motifs in red cotton, at each corner an eight-point star in alternating orange and red, in the center of each square a cream-colored diamond on light blue ground with half-circle notches at each corner highlighted by a band of like nailhead motifs also in red, the backing cream-colored cotton, edged in red.
Cup or Mug, Miller Pottery, Alabama, Perry County, stoneware with Albany or Michigan slip and white feldspar glaze, blue pieces tinted with cobalt
Small One-Patch quilt, some colors arranged on diagonal, tacked not quilted
Jug with one strap-handle, dark brown glaze