#mimbres

Mimbres-Bat Motif from Native Pottery T-Shirt. Available on Amazon and Redbubble (onelink): http://geni.us/mimbresbat  This design is based on  a 700-year-old pot that is now in the collection of the State Museum, Arizona University.

Bowl with a Pair of Avian-Fish Composite Creatures, Mimbres, 1000, Art Institute of Chicago: Arts of the Americas

Many Mimbres hemispherical bowls feature bilateral compositions with a diversity of animal, human, and composite figures. In this design, a bird and a fish are combined in a single symbolic form, perhaps corresponding to a poetic figure of speech or metaphor alluding to the forces of water and wind in the Mimbres worldview. Art Institute of Chicago, gift of Edward and Betty Harris Size: 13.3 × 26.4 × 30.8 cm (5 1/4 × 10 3/8 × 12 1/8 in.) Medium: Earthenware with slip and paint

!!! *** Reposted from @_medievalart These turkey gobble up a centipede on a brilliant example of Mimbres pottery from New Mexico, about 1000-1150.

Bowl with Painted Motifs

ARTIST CULTURE: Mimbres

DATE: c.1060–1110

MATERIAL: Ceramic with pigment

FOUND IN: New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North and Central America, Eby Ranch site

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

Bowl with Painted Motifs

c. 970–1020 CE

Mimbres culture (found in New Mexico)