Object Details

Donor Name

Nomad Designs

Notes

Work of art by Margaret Nazon, "Night Sky" a.k.a. "Milky Way, Starry Night # 2". Commissioned by the museum in 2021 for exhibit "Lights Out: Recovering the Night Sky", opening at National Museum of Natural History in 2023. Black cotton cloth, beaded with celestial design. Long curved lines, stars, planets, galaxies, and a comet. Multicolored beads, especially shades of blue, silver, and black. Backed with off-white cotton canvas, with the beading threads visible on the back. Double line of stitching near the edges, and edges are stitched with a zig-zag stitch.

Margaret Nazon described the items depicted on this artwork as: "3 constellations: Ursa Major; Cassiopeia and Orion (belt, bow and arrow), Ursa Minor and Polaris, 4 Black Holes (not necessarily colored black), The Aurora, Beetle Juice [Betelgeuse], Gas & clouds, Comet, Numerous colourful galaxies, 1 Caribou bone used as centre of a galaxy, and Millions of Stars, streams and swirls of cloud and gas."

Record Last Modified

27 Mar 2023

Specimen Count

1

Culture

Kutchin (Gwich'in, Dihjii Zhuh)

Accession Date

22 Jun 2022

Accession Number

2089955

USNM Number

E437462-0

Object Type

Artwork

Place

Tsiigehtchic, Northwest Territories, Canada, North America

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Data Source

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

Topic

Ethnology

Metadata Usage

CC0

GUID (Link to Original Record)

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/36c0da559-4cee-47e7-ab28-e15a2b8f1718

Record ID

nmnhanthropology_16723626