GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Mogollon populations domesticated turkeys from around 600 CE, keeping them primarily for their feathers. The painter of this bowl illustrates a turkey with abstracted staff head, expanded wings covered with a checker pattern, and a series of lines and fretwork on the body.
According to certain accounts among populations of the US Southwest, people emerged into the current world through an opening (sipapupuni) in the earth. People and animals escaped the floods that were destroying the previous world by climbing a tree into the world above. The turkey was the last to emerge since they are slow and earthbound. The tips of the bird’s tail feathers were turned white by the foam of rising flood waters.
Adapted from
Kimberly L. Jones, PhD, Hopi Visions: Journey of the Human Spirit, Label text, 2018.
NOTES
- Mogollon -- Mimbres, 1000–1130 (noted on TMS), updated by KJones on 10/05/16, 10/06/16, 05/11/17, 02/24/17, and 10/19/17.
- Fun Facts Source: TMS, Notes/Text Entries, Attribution, data entered by Natalie Davis, 08/06/1992; TMS, Notes/Text Entries, Attribution, data entered by David Alcoze, 06/09/1992.
- Noted in TMS, Notes / Text Entries, Other (see remarks) -- Provenance Note: Elizabeth M. and Duncan E. Boeckman are the anonymous donors. The main source for this provenance is Acquisition Record (dated December 21, 1990, copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records Object File, Confidential).
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Mogollon: AAT: 300016929
Mimbres: AAT: 300016943
Southwestern North American styles (Pre-Columbian): AAT: 300016920
Geography
Southwest (general region): TGN: 4010660
Mogollon Mountains (mountains): TGN: 1109357
Mimbres (river): TGN: 1127171
Process/materials
ceramic (material): AAT: 300235507
clay: AAT: 300010439
slip (clay): AAT: 300010459
slip glaze: AAT: 300015110
paint (coating): AAT: 300015029
modeling (forming): AAT: 300053130
coiling (pottery technique): AAT: 300053903
firing (technique): AAT: 300053887
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
vessels (containers): AAT: 300193015
bowls (vessels): AAT: 300203596
serving dishes: AAT: 300198294
ritual vessels: AAT: 300265801
portable: AAT: 300256252
figures (representations): AAT: 300189808
standing: AAT: 300239500
animals (Animalia kingdom): AAT: 300249395
birds (animals): AAT: 300266506
birds (motifs): AAT: 300375751
turkey (animal/bird/meleagris genus): AAT: 300266497
feathers (animal components): AAT: 300400474
feather (material): AAT: 300011809
wings (animal components): AAT: 300375053
myth: AAT: 300201023
mythology (literary genre): AAT: 300055985
mythical or legendary beings: AAT: 300375725
humans (homo sapiens species): AAT: 300265711
creation (doctrinal concept): AAT: 300069002
floods (natural events): AAT: 300054731
underworld (doctrinal concept): AAT: 300343823
tree of life (general motif / axis mundi / cosmic axis / world axis / world tree): AAT: 300312112
water: AAT: 300011772
black (color): AAT: 300130920
white (color): AAT: 300129784
geometric motifs: AAT: 300009764
lines (geometric concept): AAT: 300056279
circles (plane figures): AAT: 300055627
zigzags (geometric patterns): AAT: 300165028
frets (pattern): AAT: 300010155
stepped frets (meanders (patterns)/motifs): AAT: 300010171
fretwork: AAT: 300165040
checker pattern (checkerboard): AAT: 300010111
Mimbres Black-on-white (ceramic type / Southwestern North American style): AAT: 300016945
cracks: AAT: 300209168
breaking (broken / destruction / process): AAT: 300053083
funerary objects: AAT: 300234126
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From 1990: Dallas Museum of Art, Foundation for the Arts Collection, anonymous gift [1], [2], [3], [4]
[1] The main source for this provenance is Acquisition Record (dated December 21, 1990, copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records Object File, Confidential). Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.
[2] The main source for this provenance is Deed of Gift (dated December 23, 1990, copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records Object File, Confidential). Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.
[3] The Foundation for the Arts is a non-profit corporation created as a title-holding entity to serve the people of Dallas but to operate independently of the City. The Dallas Museum of Art (at its own cost) is responsible for the care, storage, insurance, conservation and maintenance of the collection, and agrees to maintain the highest museum standards in the management and handling of the Foundation’s collection. The title to all works of art purchased or otherwise acquired by the Foundation for the Arts is retained by the Foundation.
[4] See Collections Records Digital Object File.
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General Description
Mogollon populations domesticated turkeys from around 600 CE, keeping them primarily for their feathers. The painter of this bowl illustrates a turkey with abstracted staff head, expanded wings covered with a checker pattern, and a series of lines and fretwork on the body.
According to certain accounts among populations of the US Southwest, people emerged into the current world through an opening (sipapupuni) in the earth. People and animals escaped the floods that were destroying the previous world by climbing a tree into the world above. The turkey was the last to emerge since they are slow and earthbound. The tips of the bird’s tail feathers were turned white by the foam of rising flood waters.
Adapted from
Kimberly L. Jones, PhD, Hopi Visions: Journey of the Human Spirit, Label text, 2018.
Fun Facts
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Notes
- Mogollon -- Mimbres, 1000–1130 (noted on TMS), updated by KJones on 10/05/16, 10/06/16, 05/11/17, 02/24/17, and 10/19/17.
- Fun Facts Source: TMS, Notes/Text Entries, Attribution, data entered by Natalie Davis, 08/06/1992; TMS, Notes/Text Entries, Attribution, data entered by David Alcoze, 06/09/1992.
- Noted in TMS, Notes / Text Entries, Other (see remarks) -- Provenance Note: Elizabeth M. and Duncan E. Boeckman are the anonymous donors. The main source for this provenance is Acquisition Record (dated December 21, 1990, copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records Object File, Confidential).
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Mogollon: AAT: 300016929
Mimbres: AAT: 300016943
Southwestern North American styles (Pre-Columbian): AAT: 300016920
Geography
Southwest (general region): TGN: 4010660
Mogollon Mountains (mountains): TGN: 1109357
Mimbres (river): TGN: 1127171
Process/materials
ceramic (material): AAT: 300235507
clay: AAT: 300010439
slip (clay): AAT: 300010459
slip glaze: AAT: 300015110
paint (coating): AAT: 300015029
modeling (forming): AAT: 300053130
coiling (pottery technique): AAT: 300053903
firing (technique): AAT: 300053887
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
vessels (containers): AAT: 300193015
bowls (vessels): AAT: 300203596
serving dishes: AAT: 300198294
ritual vessels: AAT: 300265801
portable: AAT: 300256252
figures (representations): AAT: 300189808
standing: AAT: 300239500
animals (Animalia kingdom): AAT: 300249395
birds (animals): AAT: 300266506
birds (motifs): AAT: 300375751
turkey (animal/bird/meleagris genus): AAT: 300266497
feathers (animal components): AAT: 300400474
feather (material): AAT: 300011809
wings (animal components): AAT: 300375053
myth: AAT: 300201023
mythology (literary genre): AAT: 300055985
mythical or legendary beings: AAT: 300375725
humans (homo sapiens species): AAT: 300265711
creation (doctrinal concept): AAT: 300069002
floods (natural events): AAT: 300054731
underworld (doctrinal concept): AAT: 300343823
tree of life (general motif / axis mundi / cosmic axis / world axis / world tree): AAT: 300312112
water: AAT: 300011772
black (color): AAT: 300130920
white (color): AAT: 300129784
geometric motifs: AAT: 300009764
lines (geometric concept): AAT: 300056279
circles (plane figures): AAT: 300055627
zigzags (geometric patterns): AAT: 300165028
frets (pattern): AAT: 300010155
stepped frets (meanders (patterns)/motifs): AAT: 300010171
fretwork: AAT: 300165040
checker pattern (checkerboard): AAT: 300010111
Mimbres Black-on-white (ceramic type / Southwestern North American style): AAT: 300016945
cracks: AAT: 300209168
breaking (broken / destruction / process): AAT: 300053083
funerary objects: AAT: 300234126
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
From 1990: Dallas Museum of Art, Foundation for the Arts Collection, anonymous gift [1], [2], [3], [4]
[1] The main source for this provenance is Acquisition Record (dated December 21, 1990, copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records Object File, Confidential). Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.
[2] The main source for this provenance is Deed of Gift (dated December 23, 1990, copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records Object File, Confidential). Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.
[3] The Foundation for the Arts is a non-profit corporation created as a title-holding entity to serve the people of Dallas but to operate independently of the City. The Dallas Museum of Art (at its own cost) is responsible for the care, storage, insurance, conservation and maintenance of the collection, and agrees to maintain the highest museum standards in the management and handling of the Foundation’s collection. The title to all works of art purchased or otherwise acquired by the Foundation for the Arts is retained by the Foundation.
[4] See Collections Records Digital Object File.
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