1991.340.FA Classic Mimbres Black-on-white jar: spirals and flowers (New Mexico, Mogollon (Mimbres))

Mogollon: AAT: 300016929

Mimbres: AAT: 300016943

Southwestern North American styles (Pre-Columbian): AAT: 300016920

New Mexico (state): TGN: 7007566

Southwest (general region): TGN: 4010660

Mogollon Mountains (mountains): TGN: 1109357

Mimbres (river): TGN: 1127171

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

vessels (containers): AAT: 300193015

jars (vessels): AAT: 300195347

water jars (vessels): DMA

serving dishes: AAT: 300198294

ritual vessels: AAT: 300265801

ritual objects: AAT: 300312158

portable: AAT: 300256252

black (color): AAT: 300130920

white (color): AAT: 300129784

plants (living organisms): AAT: 300132360

plant-derived motifs: AAT: 300164599

flower (motif): AAT: 300375563

flowers (plants): AAT: 300132399

floral patterns: AAT: 300010135

geometric motifs: AAT: 300009764

lines (geometric concept): AAT: 300056279

circles (plane figures): AAT: 300055627

triangles (polygons): AAT: 300009806

zigzags (geometric patterns): AAT: 300165028

scrolls (spirals/motifs): AAT: 300010094

spirals (geometric figures): AAT: 300163114

Mimbres Black-on-white (ceramic type / Southwestern North American style): AAT: 300016945

Cibola White Ware (ceramic type / Southwestern North American style): DMA

Reserve Black-on-white (Reserve Mogollon/ceramic type/Southwestern North American style): 300016942 

Cibola (inhabited place): TGN: 2006662

Hopi: AAT: 300017763

Until 1991: Private collection, Dallas [1], [2]

From 1991: Dallas Museum of Art, Foundation for the Arts Collection, anonymous gift [1], [2], [3]

[1] The main source for this provenance is Acquisition Record (dated December 05, 1991, copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records Object File, Confidential). Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.

[2] See Collections Records Digital Object File.

[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.

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