Painted by a Distant Hand: Mimbres Pottery from the American Southwest

ISBN-13: 9780873654029 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 128 str.

Steven A. LeBlanc; Hillel S. Burger; Hillel S. Burger

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The Mimbres people of southwest New Mexico lived from A.D. 200 until the 1100s, and are best known for their distinctive painted pottery that incorporate sophisticated abstract and representational images. Archaeologist LeBlanc of the Peabody Museum outlines Harriet & Burton Cosgrove's excavation of the Swarts Ranch ruin in the 1920s, and provides