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Pottery bow painted with insects.
Pottery bow painted with insects. Such bowls were intended as buria offerings and were ritually 'killed' at burial with punctures to their base. This helped to release the vessel's spirit into the next world. Country of Origin: USA. Culture: Mogollon, Mimbres style. Date/Period: c AD 950. Place of Origin: southwest New Mexico. Material Size: d = 30cms. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Location: 04. DISH
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AR9130130
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Public
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3688px × 3508px
Photo Credit
HIP / Art Resource, NY
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afterlife
AMERICA
American
animism
Archaeology
archeology
artefact
belief
Ceramic
CUSTOM
Desert
Forman
Funeral
Funerary
NATIVE
PRE-CONTACT
Prehistoric
rite
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Werner
Werner Forman
Werner Forman Archive
Werner Forman Archive 2
