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Region: East Tennessee
1823 Nancy Reece
Lucy Ames?, Teacher
Brainerd Mission School
Brainerd Village, Cherokee Nation East Co.
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville

1534"V x 16"H © TSS 236
fibers: silk
ground: 24 V/28 H ct. linen
Biography:
Nancy (Nannie) Reece (1815-1875) was the daughter of Charles Gullet Reece II and Lucinda Levy.
Description:
Nancy's delicate sampler features a free embroidery border and cartouche. It is the earliest dated Native American sampler documented. Nancy wrote many letters over her lifetime, which attest to her excellent education.

Her text is from Proverbs 31:30.

Favour is deceitful and beauty is
vain but a woman that feareth the
Lord she shall be Praised