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 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: 8 x 18.8 cm (3 1/8 x 7 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1982-06-30T04:00:00 The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. 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 Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art (March 7-May 30, 2010). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA 1979: Southwest American Indian Art, September 1979-February 1980, no catalogue
Mansfield Arts Center, Ohio (March 7 - April 4, 1993) "Art of the First Nations"

CMA 2010: "Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection" March 7 - May 30, 2010 --- 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: In this ancient Mimbres bowl, a whimsical desert grasshopper combines both realistic and abstract elements 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 LXXVIII, figure 307, caption p. 93 url: Adams, Henry. What's American about American art?: a gallery tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008. page number: Reproduced: p. 18 - 19; back cover url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.47/1930.47_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.47/1930.47_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.47/1930.47_full.tif