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This quilt features the first line of the song Yankee Doodle, rendered in pixelated text. Yankee Doodle was popularized around the time of the American Revolution, and was eventually reclaimed from the British, who wrote it as an insult to colonists which were considered to be uncivilized and idiotic Doodles. Upcycled garments, African print fabrics, "patriotic" print fabrics, and vintage fabrics including a 1976 Bicentennial toile fabric, sit atop a red and blue marbleized fabric 'pedestal'. This is one of several recent works in which Pryor contemplates institutionalized patriotism, settlement, and identity in the United States.