id:			111918
accession number:	1930.40
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.40
updated:		2023-03-04 09:29:46.680000

Bowl with Geometric Design (Two-part Pinwheel), c. 1000–1150. Southwest, Mogollan, Mimbres, Pre-Contact Period, 11th-12th century. Ceramic; diameter: 10 x 26.5 cm (3 15/16 x 10 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1930.40

title:				Bowl with Geometric Design (Two-part Pinwheel)
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creation date:			c. 1000–1150
creation date earliest:		1000
creation date latest:		1150
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creditline:			Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund
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culture:	Southwest, Mogollan, Mimbres, Pre-Contact Period, 11th-12th century
technique:	ceramic
department:	Art of the Americas
collection:	AA - Native North America
type:		Ceramic
find spot:	Cameron Creek Village site, New Mexico
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measurements: Diameter: 10 x 26.5 cm (3 15/16 x 10 7/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   1982-06-20T04:00:00
	<i>The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-August 22, 1982).

	title:		Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection
	opening date:   2010-03-07T00:00:00
	<i>Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (March 7-May 30, 2010).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* CMA 1979: Southwest American Indian Art, September 1979-February 1980, no catalogue

* CMA 2010: "Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection" March 7 - May 30, 2010

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PROVENANCE

	Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM, 1930, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1920-1930
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1930-
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fun fact:
Composing on a round surface challenges artists to use space without simply repeating circular motifs.

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wall description:
The Mogollon of New Mexico's Mimbres region produced thousands of 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. Perhaps, like modern Pueblo peoples, the Mimbres believed that the sky was a dome pierced to allow for passage between worlds, as from the realm of the living to the dead.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Bradfield, Wesley. <em>Cameron Creek Village: A Site in the Mimbres Area in Grant County, New Mexico.</em> [Santa Fe, N.M.]: [School of American Research], 1931.
	page number: 	p. 108, entry 120-28
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