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Pottery bowl with drawing representing childbirth.
Pottery bowl with drawing representing childbirth. Such bowls were intended as burial offerings and were ritually 'killed' at burial with punctures to their base. This helped release the vessel's spirit into the next world. Country of Origin: USA Culture: Mogollon, Mimbres style. Date/Period: 10th C AD. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Location: 04. DISH
Unique Identifier
AR9149162
Type
Image
Purpose
Public
Size
2908px × 3512px
Photo Credit
HIP / Art Resource, NY
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afterlife
AMERICA
American
animism
Archaeology
archeology
artefact
Artifact
belief
Birth Scene
Ceramic
CUSTOM
Desert
Forman
Funeral
Funerary
NATIVE
PALAEOINDIAN
PALEOINDIAN
PRE-CONTACT
Prehistoric
rite
Ritual
Southwest
Werner
Werner Forman
Werner Forman Archive
Werner Forman Archive 2
