Southwest, New Mexico, Cameron Creek village (non-funerary contexts), Mimbres Mogollon female artists
Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund, Education Art Collection 1930.36, 1930.42, 1930.47
Between 1000 and 1130, the Mogollon (moh-go-yohn) of New Mexico’s Mimbres region added a wide variety of figurative subjects to the geometric motifs that more typically appear on ancient Southwest pottery. This period of innovation produced the bowls shown here, one with an expertly abstracted grasshopper. The Mimbres used hemispheric bowls to prepare and serve food before puncturing and burying them, usually with the dead. Perhaps, like modern Pueblo peoples, they believed the sky is a bowl-like dome that can be pierced to allow passage between worlds, as from the living to the dead. See the nearby “What’s not on view?” label for more about Mimbres bowls.]
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[Three Bowls, 1000-1130
Ceramic, slip
Southwest, New Mexico, Cameron Creek village (non-funerary contexts), Mimbres Mogollon female artists
Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund, Education Art Collection 1930.36, 1930.42, 1930.47
Between 1000 and 1130, the Mogollon (moh-go-yohn) of New Mexico’s Mimbres region added a wide variety of figurative subjects to the geometric motifs that more typically appear on ancient Southwest pottery. This period of innovation produced the bowls shown here, one with an expertly abstracted grasshopper. The Mimbres used hemispheric bowls to prepare and serve food before puncturing and burying them, usually with the dead. Perhaps, like modern Pueblo peoples, they believed the sky is a bowl-like dome that can be pierced to allow passage between worlds, as from the living to the dead. See the nearby “What’s not on view?” label for more about Mimbres bowls.]
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