Mimbres Classic Mysteries Book Softbound Barro Negro praying figures

praying figures

The Zapotec call them santos niños

which contrast elegantly with the greens and reds of the body

a Mata Ortiz potter from Chihuahua

María has painted the entire body on a soft blue ground with a garden of tiny flowers in every color

Mimbres Classic Mysteries Book Softbound Barro Negro praying figuresReconstructing a Lost Culture Through Its Pottery For a century and a half from roughly AD 1000 to 1150 the Mimbres people of the prehistoric American Southwest painted bowls that rank among the most extraordinary figurative art ever produced in the ancient Americas. Then they vanished, leaving their painted pottery as the most vivid testimony to a world we can only begin to imagine. Mimbres Classic Mysteries brings that world into focus. Industrial