id:			111948
accession number:	1930.43
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.43
updated:		2023-03-04 09:29:46.710000

Bowl with Geometric Design (Two-part Design), c. 1000–1150. Southwest, Mogollan, Mimbres, Pre-Contact Period, 11th-12th century. Ceramic; overall: 13.2 x 28.5 cm (5 3/16 x 11 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1930.43

title:				Bowl with Geometric Design (Two-part Design)
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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, Grant County, New Mexico
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measurements: Overall: 13.2 x 28.5 cm (5 3/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
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PROVENANCE

	The Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1930
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fun fact:
The Mimbres people pierced holes in fine bowls before burying them as offerings.

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wall description:
The Mogollon people of New Mexico's Mimbres region produced thousands of bowls painted with black-and-white designs on their interiors. The designs range from geometric motifs to abstract humans and animals, like the pronghorn antelopes shown here. Meaning may have dwelled in part in the domed shape of the bowls, which often were ritually punctured before they were inverted over the heads of the deceased. Perhaps, like modern Pueblo peoples, the Mimbres believed that the sky was a dome pierced to allow for passage between worlds, from the realm of the living to the dead.
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RELATED WORKS

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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 XLIII, figure 110, caption p. 75
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