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The African Heritage : Patchwork Quilts, Textiles, Stoneware Pottery, Drum and Houses. Harriet Powers, Bible Quilt, 1886. Harriet Powers, Bible Quilt, 1898. Fon Appliqué Cotton, D.R. Benin, Early 20 th .cent. Appliqué, Altar piece, D.R. Benin, 20 th . Cent. Egungun Ensemble,
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The African Heritage: Patchwork Quilts, Textiles, Stoneware Pottery, Drum and Houses
Fon Appliqué Cotton, D.R. Benin, Early 20th.cent.
Egungun Ensemble, Cotton, leather, beads Yoruba, Nigeria, 20th cent
Egungun Masquerade in performance Yoruba Nigeria, 20th cent.
Jacob’s Ladder, 1880s (1870-1890) 72”x87”, pieced cotton, Quilt, Kentucky
Louisa Combs, Hand woven blanket, Cotton, wool, c. 1890 Hazard, Kentucky
Afro-Carolina face-vessel, 1860, Glazed pottery, Edgefield District, SC
Akan ritual pottery, Ghana, 19th. Cent.
Wrought-iron figure, Late 18th cent.
Anonymous Virginia Drum by An enslaved person, Wood, leather, Virginia, c.1645
Adire, indigo dyed cloth, Yoruba, Nigeria, cotton 20th. Cent.
Dave, 13th May, 1859, Glazed wheel-thrown pot
African House,1798-1800, Melrose Plantation Natchitouches, Louisiana USA
Quilts Functional, aesthetic, symbolic, communicative and or spiritual values: Doubling/coding/substitution: Biblical symbols/liberation/freedom; Underground railroad, documentation, symbols and markers Polyrhythmic motifs, ziz-zag patterns, bright colors conforms to African aesthetic consciousness Face Vessel, Drum, and Iron figure Communication, protection—power objects Duality— African –European duality Form, aesthetic, and functional aspects constitute the African element While their technology of production derives from European American tradition