Beaded Artwork: "Night Sky"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 22 Jun 2022
name: label: Donor Name
content: Nomad Designs
notes: label: Notes
content: 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.
label: Notes
content: 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."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Jun 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Tsiigehtchic, Northwest Territories, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kutchin (Gwich'in, Dihjii Zhuh)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2089955
label: USNM Number
content: E437462-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Artwork