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New: Remix: New Modernities in a Post-Indian World
June 7, 2008 - September 21, 2008 (new opening and closing date)
The works of 15 artists of mixed Native/non-Native background from the United States, Canada, and Mexico explore issues about the meaning of race and ethnicity in an increasingly global society, and the tension between individual self-expression and cultural identity. Artists represented include Dustinn Craig, Fausto Fernandez, Luis Gutierrez, David Hannan, Gregory Lomayesva, Brian Miller, Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Kent Monkman, Nadia Myre, Alan Natachu, Hector Ruiz, Anna Tsouhlarakis, Kade Twist, Bernard Williams, and Steven Yazzie.
New: Listening to Our Ancestors: The Art of Native Life Along the North Pacific Coast
September 12, 2007 - July 20, 2008
This exhibition presents the art and culture of the people of the Northwest Coast and features 11 Native communities from Washington state, British Columbia, and Alaska, including the Coast Salish, Makah, Nuu-chah-nulth, Kwakwaka'wakw, Heiltsuk, Nuxalk, Tsimshian, Gitxsan, Nisga'a, Haida, and Tlingit. On view are more than 400 ceremonial and everyday objects, including vivid ceremonial masks, carvings, clothing, baskets, and tools. Other notable objects included are a 13 1/2-foot model canoe with figures by Young Doctor (1850-1933), an 18th-century Nuu-chah-nulth whaler's hat, and an extremely unusual Tlingit robe made out of a Chilkat blanket (c. 1875).

Catalogue: $24 (paper)

web Web: americanindian.si.edu/listening/

New: Beauty Surrounds Us
September 23, 2006 - March 31, 2010 (new closing date)
In this new space designed to showcase the integration of art and daily life in Native cultures throughout the hemisphere, the exhibition features 77 extraordinary objects from the museum's permanent collection. Highlights include an elaborate Quechua girl's dance outfit, a Northwest Coast chief's staff with carved animal figures and crest designs, Seminole turtle shell dance leggins, a conch shell trumpet from pre-Columbian Mexico, a Navajo saddle blanket, and an Inupiak (Eskimo) ivory cribbage board.

web Web: www.nmai.si.edu/exhibitions/beauty_surrounds_us/flash8.html

Orientation Exhibition
October 30, 1994 - Indefinitely
Informational panels provide a brief history of the Delaware or Lenni Lenape tribe, one of the first inhabitants of Manhattan; the museum's mission; and the architecture of the Custom House.

Last update: July 18, 2008, 09:54

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