id:			112009
accession number:	1930.49
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.49
updated:		2023-08-23 19:31:07.141000

Bowl with Fish, c. 1000–1150. Southwest, Mogollon, Mimbres, Pre-Contact Period, 11th-12th century. Pottery; overall: 10.5 x 24.5 cm (4 1/8 x 9 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1930.49

title:				Bowl with Fish
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creation date:			c. 1000–1150
creation date earliest:		995
creation date latest:		1205
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creditline:			Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund
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culture:	Southwest, Mogollon, Mimbres, Pre-Contact Period, 11th-12th century
technique:	pottery
department:	Art of the Americas
collection:	AA - Native North America
type:		Ceramic
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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 10.5 x 24.5 cm (4 1/8 x 9 5/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Conserving the Past for the Future
	opening date:   2001-03-04T00:00:00
	<i>Conserving the Past for the Future</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-May 6, 2001).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Art of the First Nations</em>. Mansfield Arts Center, Mansfield, OH (March 7-April 4, 1993).

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PROVENANCE

	Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM, 1930, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1920s-1930
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1930-
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fun fact:
Southwest freshwater garfish or coastal Pacific swordfish? Ancient motifs traveled via trade and cultural exchange.

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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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IMAGES

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