Mimbres peoples / Bowl / 10th?12th century

Mimbres peoples
Bowl
10th?12th century
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Creator Nationality: North American; Native American; Mimbres
Creator Dates/Places: United States , New Mexico
Creator Name-CRT: Mimbres peoples
Title: Bowl
View: Principal view
Creation Start Date: 900
Creation End Date: 1199
Creation Date: 10th?12th century
Creation Place: Mimbres
Object Type: Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Materials and Techniques: ceramic
Dimensions: H. 5 in. (12.7 cm)
Description: About a thousand years ago, the peoples of the Mimbres Valley of New Mexico produced many ceramic vessels decorated with sophisticated painted images of birds, animals, and men, and combinations thereof. Done primarily in black on a more-or-less white ground, the Mimbres images are noteworthy for their spontaneity and individuality. No other group of Southwestern peoples decorated ceramic vessels in a similar manner. While many Mimbres bowls feature geometric patterns?the common regional mode of embellishment?the figurative and narrative imagery is unique to the peoples of the Mimbres Valley in the early centuries of the second millennium A.D. The pairing of figures is much favored. Deer, antelope, rabbits, and mountain sheep?the latter seen in the bowl here?are most frequently depicted in this manner. The bowls have largely been discovered in subfloor burials, customarily only one to a burial, where they were placed over the face of the deceased. Many are pierced, or "killed," and the significance of such kill-holes is unclear. Explanations for them range from rendering the bowls functionally useless to allowing their spirit, or that of the deceased, to escape .
AMICA Contributor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: New York, New York
ID Number: 1978.412.123
Credit Line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Purchase, Nelson A. Rockefeller Gift, 1964
Copyright: Copyright ? 2002 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. All rights reserved.
Rights: http://www.metmuseum.org/education/er_photo_lib.asp
AMICA ID: MMA_.1978.412.123
AMICA Library Year: 2002
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright (c) 2002 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. All Rights Reserved

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