ART OF A VANISHED RACE the Mimbres Classic Black-on-white [SOLD]

ART OF A VANISHED RACE the Mimbres Classic Black-on-white

Victor Michael Giammattei, DVM and Nanci Greer Reichert

Drawings rendered by Darcy Paige

Publisher: Dillon-Tyler, Woodland, California, 1975

Text is 15 pages, plus 40 full-page pottery illustrations with explanatory text

Very good condition with abrasions to black cover

Chapters

Before Pottery

Enters Pottery

Enters Mimbres

Mimbres Pottery

Pottery Designs

Exit Mimbres

From the Book back cover:

Why the elegant Mimbres black-on-white pottery designs have escaped the attention of the art world, or the general public for that matter, is as puzzling as the life and disappearance of the Mimbres people themselves.  In their primitive world-living nearly a Stone Age existence in the tenth century A.D. – these mysterious people made their delicate and refined pottery with enchanting hand-painted black-on-white designs that go unrivalled in all the 8,000 years of pottery making.

Victor M. Giammattei (writer, veterinarian, teacher) and Nanci Greer Reichert (fashion designer) are both natives of California. As for their book, they consider it a tribute to the forgotten people of the American Southwest.