Title
Pottery bow painted with insects
Caption
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 vessels spirit into the next world. USA. Mogollon, Mimbres style. c AD 950. southwest New Mexico.
Info+
Werner Forman Archive/ Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Credit line
Photo12/Universal Images Group/Werner Forman
Reference
UMG12A33_004
Model release
No
License type
Rights managed
Available size
37,0Mb (1,9Mb) / 12,3in x 11,7in / 3688 x 3508 (300dpi)