About this object
History of use
Silk-screen prints are a major form of contemporary Indian art. Silk-screen printing emerged in the 1950's as a new non-traditional art form, and was easily adapted to traditional Northwest Coast two dimensional design concepts.
Cultural context
contemporary art
Physical description
Silkscreen print design of the moon. The black moon has a circular face with circle in ovoid eyes. There is an ovoid below the eyes with the nose in between and two long, thin segmented lines angling inward to come to a point above the centre. There is a mouth and a chin. The ears have a sideways split u surrounded by a black u form. There are six protrusions around the circular face, four along the top and two along the bottom, each of which has a split u surrounded by a black u form. There is a black star shape at the top right corner. Pencil inscription across the bottom edge reads '84/200 2/7/75 THE MOON TSIMSHIAN TRIBE KITKATLA B.C. Roy H. Vickers'. The print is on a vertically rectangular, yellow paper piece.
