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Crux: (as seen from those who sleep on the surface of the earth under the night sky)

July 30, 2009 - February 25, 2011

Museum: American Indian Museum

Location: First Level, near Potomac Atrium

Brian Jungen (b. 1970, Dunne-za First Nations/Swiss-Canadian) created this mobile from parts of suitcases and an overturned rowboat for the 2008 Biennale of Sydney, Australia. It depicts five animals based on those the indigenous Australians named to describe their constellations -- a shark, crocodile, emu, sea eagle, and possum. This suspended mobile was inspired by the indigenous Australians' sophisticated understanding of the movement of the stars across the heavens.