Sujet
Bowl with Two Pronghorn Antelope, c 1000-1150. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Bowl with Two Pronghorn Antelope, c 1000-1150. The Mogollon people of New Mexico's Mimbres region produced thousands of bowls painted with black-and-white designs on their interiors. The designs range from geometric motifs to abstract humans and animals, like the pronghorn antelopes shown here. Meaning may have dwelled in part in the domed shape of the bowls, which often were ritually punctured before they were inverted over the heads of the deceased. Perhaps, like modern Pueblo peoples, the Mimbres believed that the sky was a dome pierced to allow for passage between worlds, from the realm of the living to the dead.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19F72_413
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
71,8Mo (7,0Mo) / 43,6cm x 41,3cm / 5145 x 4878 (300dpi)