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Beaded Artwork: "Night Sky"

National Museum of Natural History
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Donor Name
Nomad Designs
Work of art by Margaret Nazon, "Night Sky". 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
18 Jan 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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Anthropology
NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
Topic
Ethnology
Record ID
nmnhanthropology_16723626
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/36c0da559-4cee-47e7-ab28-e15a2b8f1718
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