Detail of a pottery bowl painted with a human figure. Such bowls were intended as burial offerings and were ritually 'killed' at burial with punctures to their base. This helped release the vessel's spirit into the next world. Country of Origin: USA. Culture: Mogollon, Mimbres style. Date/Period: 10th C AD. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, Albuquerque. Location: 04. DISH
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