Description:

Native American, southwest corner of New Mexico, Mogollon Classic Mimbres, ca. 900 to 1100 CE. An early Mimbres black-on-white vessel created via the coil-and-scrape method and intricately painted on the interior with a wide band of abstract geometric motifs that extends approximately two-thirds of the way into the bowl. Note the kill hole through the base of this bowl. According to anthropologists, the Mimbres peoples would invert a bowl over the face of the deceased and punch a ceremonial "kill hole" through the bottom. It is believed that this allowed the spirit of the bowl - and thus the deceased - to be released from its earthly form. The "kill hole" is a sign of an earlier (ca. 900 to 1100 CE) burial underneath the floor of a house; later (ca. 1100 to 1350 CE), bowls were broken into many pieces, the the pieces scattered around the deceased in the grave. Size: 9.8" W x 4.75" H (24.9 cm x 12.1 cm)

Provenance: private S.S. collection, Los Angeles, California, USA

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#143768

  • Condition: Repaired from approximately a dozen pieces. No overpaint or restoration with added clay. Small losses from peripheries and another loss from near the "kill hole". Really nice preservation of motifs.

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