Acoma Pueblo Black-on-white Dish with Mimbres Designs [SOLD]

Acoma Pueblo potters have, since the 1950s or so, been painting Mimbres designs on contemporary Acoma pottery.  They consider the Mimbres Indians as their ancestors.

Emma Lewis Mitchell is a daughter of Lucy Lewis and her siblings are Ann Lewis Hansen, Mary Lewis Garcia, Dolores Lewis Garcia and Carmel Lewis Haskaya. 

This Mimbres design appears to be a birthing event.  The figure on the left is giving birth and the figure on the right is pregnant.  There is a Mimbres bowl in the Peabody Museum of Harvard University that was collected in the 1924-1927 periods that Mitchell probably used for inspiration.

Condition:  The dish is in original condition.  It is signed Emma Lewis Acoma, "78."

Provenance: from the collection of Katherine H. Rust

Recommended Reading: Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery by Rick Dillingham