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Pictorial Quilt 1898 Harriet Powers made a set of quilts called the Pictorial Quilt in 1889. It’s an example of a narrative quilt in the applique style. It has 15 panels, ten of which in the quilt are images of her interpretation of the bible stories she read. The 10 biblical images in the quilt are the creation of the animals, Adam and Eve, Moses and the serpent, Jonah and the whale, Job praying for his enemies, and two scenes in the life of Jesus. The second image is a depiction of the dark day of May 19, 1780, where the smoke and ashes from the forest fires in the US and Canada appear to block out the sun. The central panel of the quilt (the one with the blue background) is an account of the Leonid meteor shower of 1833. The panel is telling the story of the constellation Leo, and his story of the meteors who thought is God’s hand. The other 5 are reports of natural phenomena that impress normal Americans and became part of oral tradition. For example, Panel 11 is about the cold weather on February 10, 1895, when, according to Powers’ description, icicles from the breath of a mule and a man froze his jug of liquor. Panel 12 and 13 are not based on any big events, like Panel 13 where a hog said to walk from Georgia to Virginia.