id: 111876 accession number: 1930.36 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.36 updated: 2023-03-04 09:29:46.648000 Bowl with Geometeric Design, Warped (Three-part Design), 1000–1130. Native North America, Southwest, New Mexico, Cameron Creek village, Mimbres Mogollon. Ceramic, slip; overall: 15.5 x 24 cm (6 1/8 x 9 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1930.36 title: Bowl with Geometeric Design, Warped (Three-part Design) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1000–1130 creation date earliest: 1000 creation date latest: 1130 current location: 231 Native North American creditline: Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund copyright: --- culture: Native North America, Southwest, New Mexico, Cameron Creek village, Mimbres Mogollon technique: ceramic, slip department: Art of the Americas collection: AA - Native North America type: Ceramic find spot: Cameron Creek Village, Grant County, New Mexico catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 15.5 x 24 cm (6 1/8 x 9 7/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-06-09T00:00:00 The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art", no. 16, p. 116. --- PROVENANCE Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM, 1930, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1920s footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1930 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Mimbres painters achieved controlled lines with brushes made of the chewed ends of yucca leaves. digital description: wall description: The Mogollon of New Mexico’s Mimbres region created thousands of hemispheric bowls painted with black-and-white designs on their interiors. The designs range from elegant geometric motifs to abstract humans and animals. Meaning may have dwelled in part in the domed shape of the bowls, which often were ritually punctured before they were placed over the heads of the deceased in graves. (This example comes from a non-funerary context.) Perhaps, like the modern Pueblo peoples who descend from them, the Mimbres believed that the sky is a dome pierced to allow passage between worlds, such as between the realms of the living and the dead. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Bradfield, Wesley. Cameron Creek Village, A Site in the Mimbres Area in Grant County, New Mexico. [Santa Fe, N.M.]: [The School of American Research], 1931. page number: plate LXXXI, figure 133-28, caption p. 109 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.36/1930.36_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.36/1930.36_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.36/1930.36_full.tif