Painted by a distant hand
Subtitle: Mimbres pottery from the American Southwest
By: Steven A. LeBlanc ; foreword by Rubie Watson ; photographs by Hillel S. Burger.
Series: Peabody Museum collections series
Publisher: Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University
Published: 2004
Place of publication: [Cambridge, Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
Subjects: Cosgrove, H. S. -- b. 1877 -- Archaeological collections.; Cosgrove, C. B. -- b. 1875 -- Archaeological collections.; Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology -- Archaeological collections.; Mimbres pottery -- Themes, motives.; Mimbres pottery -- Classification.; Mimbres culture -- New Mexico -- Mimbres River Valley.; Archaeological expeditions -- New Mexico -- Mimbres River Valley -- History.; Swarts Ruin (N.M.); Mimbres River Valley (N.M.) -- Antiquities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: The beginnings of a collection; value: A brief history of the Mimbres people; value: Mimbres daily life; value: Mimbres painted pottery; value: What is being depicted?; value: Who painted the bowls?; value: What happened to the Mimbres people?; value: Mimbres designs as inspiration.