Book - Mimbres Pottery: Ancient Art of the American Southwest [SOLD]

MIMBRES POTTERY Ancient Art of the American Southwest

Essays by J. J. Brody, Catherine J. Scott, Steven A. LeBlanc

Introduction by Tony Berlant

Publisher: Hudson Hills Press, New York

Hardback, First Edition 1983

132 pages, color and black and white photos

From the Dust Jacket:

The Mimbres people, who flourished a millennium ago in small farming villages in southwestern New Mexico, produced extraordinary painted pottery decorated in both abstract and—unique for its time and place—representational, narrative styles.  Most of the figurative paintings are on bowls that were apparently created specifically for mortuary purposes.  A “kill” hole was knocked out of each before it was placed over the head of the deceased—perhaps to permit the release of the bowl’s “spirit.”

This book presents the finest pieces from 32 collections—more than 125 objects selected for their aesthetic quality, visual impact, iconographic variety, and historical importance.  To this collection of spectacular works of Native American art is added the scholarship of four distinguished authorities.