A sampler with six scenes: a church with a garden, figures, animals, birds and butterflies in front; the garden of Eden with Adam and Eve; and a mourning scene with a weeping willow, and funerary urn, and four figures, two adults and two children. Three additional scenes show figures with animals and trees. With a rose vine border.
The verse reads:

Mother dear weep not for me
When to this yard my grave you see
my time was short and blest was he
that called me to eternity

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1941	We acquired this object.
2007	We photographed this object.
2012	We photographed this object.
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Sampler (USA), 1831

This is a Sampler. It was embroidered by Margaret Barnholt, American. It is dated 1831 and we acquired it in 1941. Its medium is cotton and silk embroidery on cotton foundation and its technique is embroidered in cross and stem stitches on plain weave foundation. It is a part of the Textiles department.

This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled Stitched Samplers: Voices from the Past.

This object was bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe. It is credited Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe.

Awls (USA), Created before 1914
carved ivory.
National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, 3/6271.
17.2012.5

Its dimensions are

H x W: 66.7 x 57.2 cm (26 1/4 x 22 1/2 in.)

It is inscribed

Margaret Barnholt her sampler done in the twelth year of her age 1831

Cite this object as

Sampler (USA), 1831; Embroidered by Margaret Barnholt, American ; cotton and silk embroidery on cotton foundation; H x W: 66.7 x 57.2 cm (26 1/4 x 22 1/2 in.); Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe; 1941-69-153

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2D9rn/
Accession Number 1941-69-153
Object ID 18564023