Goldie Richmond creator of the Papago Reservation Quilt. In 1932, Goldie and her husband opened Tracy's Trading Post at San Simon, 110 miles west of Tucson on the Tohono O'odham (formerly known as Papago) Reservation. Goldie stitched quilts to sell at the trading post. She developed exceptional pictorial designs for which she won many awards. Goldie's original appliqué quilts depicting scenes of Tohono O'odham daily life are magnificent fabric portraits of the Sonoran Desert and its people and you can see why it was chosen as one of the Top 100 Quilts of the 20th Century. |