The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 23, 2023

Bowl with Geometic Design (Two-part Pinwheel)

c 1000–1150

Southwest, Mogollan, Mimbres, Pre-Contact Period,11th-12th century

Ceramic

Diameter: 12.7 x 26.7 cm (5 x 10 1/2 in.)

Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1930.41

Find spot: Cameron Creek Village, Grant County, New Mexico

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

Mimbres painters may have used labyrinth motifs like this one as metaphors for spiritual journey.

Provenance
1920s
Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM, 1930, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
1930
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Citations
Bradfield, Wesley. Cameron Creek Village, A Site in the Mimbres Area in Grant County, New Mexico. [Santa Fe, N.M.]: [The School of American Research], 1931. Plate L, figure 93, caption p. 73
Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1930.41