Object Details
- 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
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/36c0da559-4cee-47e7-ab28-e15a2b8f1718
