Bowl Item Number: 73.35.2 from the Brooklyn Museum
Credit Line
By exchange
Label
All that remains of Mimbres villages are rubble mounds with scattered pottery shards. No one knows if the Mimbres moved or who their descendants might be. Mimbres potters, probably women, created sophisticated designs for six hundred years. The pottery objects that have survived are primarily executed in black and white with complicated designs. Some of the best pottery pieces apparently had holes deliberately punched into their centers before they were placed in burials underneath house floors, but we do not know why.
Item History
- Made between 550 and 1150
What
Who
- Culture
- Mimbres
Where
- Holding Institution
- Brooklyn Museum
When
- Creation Date
- between 550 and 1150
Other
- Location
- American Identities: A New Look, American Art Galleries, 5th Floor, The Americas’ First Peoples, 4000 B.C.E.–1521 C.E., 5th Floor
- Classification
- Vessel