Bayou Tapestry

The Bayou Tapestry is an embroidered cloth that depicts scenes of daily life at Arkansas Post during the first half of the eighteenth century, including the hunting and consumption of frogs. Its official name is La Tapisserie d’Arkansas (“The Arkansas Tapestry”), but the name Bayou Tapestry was applied later by Arkansas historians, playing upon the name of the eleventh-century Bayeux Tapestry, which depicts the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. The tapestry will be exhibited in Arkansas sometime in 2027 through a partnership between the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts and the Musée de l’Homme.