Native American, Southwest, New Mexico, Mimbres Valley, ca. 950 to 1300 CE. A rare white-ground pottery bowl of hemispherical form that was created via the meticulous Puebloan coil-and-scrape technique. The interior bears a broad band of black-painted linear motifs - in dense stripes and zigzags - that alternate between solid panels filled by 2 abstract anthropomorphic creatures, perhaps small rodents or larger animals like foxes. The Mimbres people occupied the mountain and river valleys of southwestern New Mexico; the name we know them by comes from the Spanish word for the willows that grew alongside the river valleys. The artists responsible for creating pottery vessels like this were women, and many Mimbres women have been found in burials accompanied by pottery making tools. Size: 7.5" L x 7.4" W x 4.375" H (19 cm x 18.8 cm x 11.1 cm)

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

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#184577

Repaired from multiple pieces with small areas of restoration as shown. Abrasions and fading to original pigment. Nice presentation.