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Native American, Southwestern United States, New Mexico, Mimbres Valley, Mimbres, ca. 1025 to 1250 CE. A coil-and-scrape pottery bowl featuring beautiful black motifs on the gray-white ground. The bowl exhibits a round but relatively stable base, tall walls, and a thick rim that surrounds the deep basin. Filling the entirety of the basin is a series of abstract black-painted linear and geometric motifs on the white ground that intermesh with one another. The color of the motifs even transitions from black to a soft red hue which creates a wondrous presentation.

The Mimbres people occupied the mountain and river valleys of southwestern New Mexico; the name we know them by is from the Spanish word for the willows that grew alongside the river valleys. The artists responsible for creating pottery vessels like this were women, and many Mimbres women have been found in burials accompanied by pottery making tools.

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Provenance: Private Reinsmoen collection, Clear Lake, Iowa, acquired through descent from Robert Anderson, acquired prior to 2000

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#184928

Professional repair and restoration to areas of rim, with resurfacing and overpainting along new material and break lines. Minor abrasions, with scattered areas of touch-up painting, and minor pitting, otherwise in great condition. Great preservation to basin motif.