The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Bowl with Geometric Design (Two-part Pinwheel)
c. 1000–1150
Diameter: 10 x 26.5 cm (3 15/16 x 10 7/16 in.)
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Composing on a round surface challenges artists to use space without simply repeating circular motifs.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.- 1920-1930Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM, 1930, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art1930-The Cleveland Museum of Art
- "Some Examples of Mimbres Valley Pottery." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 17, no. 4, part 1 (April, 1930): 75-77 Mentioned: p. 77 www.jstor.orgBradfield, Wesley. Cameron Creek Village: A Site in the Mimbres Area in Grant County, New Mexico. [Santa Fe, N.M.]: [School of American Research], 1931. p. 108, entry 120-28
- Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 7-May 30, 2010).CMA 2010: "Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection" March 7 - May 30, 2010The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-August 22, 1982).CMA 1979: Southwest American Indian Art, September 1979-February 1980, no catalogue
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