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Painted by a distant hand : Mimbres pottery from the American Southwest
- Title
- Painted by a distant hand : Mimbres pottery from the American Southwest / Steven A. LeBlanc ; foreword by Rubie Watson ; photographs by Hillel S. Burger.
- Author
- LeBlanc, Steven A.
- Publication
- [Cambridge, Mass.] : Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University, ©2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Use in library | E99.M76 L383 2004 | Off-site | |
| Book/Text | Use in library | E99.M76 L383 2004 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 109 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map; 22 cm
- Summary
- Highlighting one of the Peabody Museum's most important archaeological expeditions--the excavation of the Swarts Ranch Ruin in southwestern New Mexico by Harriet and Burton Cosgrove in the mid-1920s--Steven LeBlanc's book features rare, never-before-published examples of Mimbres painted pottery, considered by many scholars to be the most unique of all the ancient art traditions of North America. Made between ad 1000 and 1150, these pottery bowls and jars depict birds, fish, insects, and mammals that the Mimbres encountered in their daily lives, portray mythical beings, and show humans participating in both ritual and everyday activities. LeBlanc traces the origins of the Mimbres people and what became of them, and he explores our present understanding of what the images mean and what scholars have learned about the Mimbres people in the 75 years since the Cosgroves' expedition.
- Series Statement
- Peabody Museum collections series
- Uniform Title
- Peabody Museum collections series.
- Subjects
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Archaeological collections
- Cosgrove, C. B (Cornelius Burton), 1875- > Archaeological collections
- Cosgrove, H. S (Harriet Silliman), 1877- > Archaeological collections
- Mimbres River Valley (N.M.) > Antiquities
- Archaeological expeditions > New Mexico > Mimbres River Valley > History
- Mimbres culture > New Mexico > Mimbres River Valley
- Mimbres pottery > Classification
- Mimbres pottery > Themes, motives
- Swarts Ruin (N.M.)
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bildband.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 106-109).
- Contents
- The beginnings of a collection -- A brief history of the Mimbres people -- Mimbres daily life -- Mimbres painted pottery -- What is being depicted? -- Who painted the bowls? -- What happened to the Mimbres people? -- Mimbres designs as inspiration.
- ISBN
- 0873654021
- 9780873654029
- LCCN
- 2004014562
- OCLC
- ocm55877617
- 55877617
- SCSB-1381431
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library