Handmade Liberian Quilt
Liberia c. 2009
This handmade quilt was a gift to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia in 2009. The inscription "It Takes a Village" is a reference to the title of Clinton's 1996 book, It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us, written while she was First Lady of the United States.
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