Kay WalkingStick. Sakajeweha: Leader of Men, 1976. Acrylic, saponified wax, and ink on canvas, 72" x 96". Collection of the New Jersey State Museum, gift of the artist in memory of R. Michael Echols. FA1992.25.
More than 125 objects from the Museum’s
collection and other lenders, including origi- nal treaties, archival photographs, wampum belts, textiles, baskets and peace medals will be featured. An original treaty, on loan from the
National Archives for six months, will be installed in the exhibition through Febru- ary 2016: Horse Creek Treaty (The Great Smoke; Fort Laramie Treaty; Treaty of Long Meadows) among the Arapaho, Arikara, As- siniboine, Cheyenne, Crow, Hidatsa, Mandan and Sioux Nations and with the United States, 1851.
THE GREAT INKA ROAD: ENGINEERING AN EMPIRE Through June 1, 2018, Third Level Construction of the Inka Road stands as one of the monumental engineering achieve-
ments in history. A network nearly 25,000 miles long, crossing mountains and tropical lowlands, rivers and deserts, the Inka Road linked Cusco, the administrative capital and spiritual center of the Inka world, to the farthest reaches of its empire. The road continues to serve contemporary Andean communities across Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru and as a sacred space and symbol of cultural continuity. In 2014, the United Nations cultural agency, UNESCO, recognized the Inka Road as a World Heritage site. The Great Inka Road: Engineering an
Empire explores the foundations of the Inka Road in earlier Andean cultures, technolo- gies that made building the road possible, the cosmology, the principles of duality, reciprocity and integration of infrastructure and spirituality and political organization
of the Inka world and the legacy of the Inka Empire during the colonial period and in the present day. Through images, maps, models and 140 objects, including a ceramic Chavin stirrup spout bottle (the oldest item in the exhibition, ca. 800–100 B.C.), impressive gold ornaments, necklaces made from shells from the Lambayeque region, stone carvings, silver pendants and figurines and various textiles made from camelid hair, the items illustrate important concepts found throughout Andean culture.
KAY WALKINGSTICK: AN AMERICAN ARTIST Nov. 7, 2015 – Sept. 18, 2016 Third Level Gallery Kay WalkingStick: An American Artist is the first major retrospective of the artistic career of Kay WalkingStick (b. 1935), an enrolled
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