id:			111988
accession number:	1930.47
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.47
updated:		2023-01-10 20:10:48.356000

Bowl with Grasshopper, 1000–1130. Native North America, Southwest, New Mexico, Cameron Creek village, Mimbres Mogollon. Ceramic, slip; overall: 8 x 18.8 cm (3 1/8 x 7 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1930.47

title:				Bowl with Grasshopper
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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:			

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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: 

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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 8 x 18.8 cm (3 1/8 x 7 3/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   1982-06-30T04:00:00
	<i>The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 30-September 5, 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<br>Mansfield Arts Center, Ohio (March 7 - April 4, 1993) "Art of the First Nations"<br><br>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: 1920s
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1930
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fun fact:
In this ancient Mimbres bowl, a whimsical desert grasshopper combines both realistic and abstract elements

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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.
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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 LXXVIII, figure 307, caption p. 93
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	Adams, Henry. <em>What's American about American art?: a gallery tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 18 - 19; back cover
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IMAGES

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