Mimbres Classic Mysteries Book Softbound Mexican silver

Mimbres Classic Mysteries Book Softbound Mexican silverReconstructing 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

Each bat is carefully incised and painted

completely at home on any surface it lands on

Candido dresses the owl in a full bouquet of hand-painted flowers—reds

including a stylized heart that represents vitality and connection

was considered by the Aztecs to be a sacred guide for souls traveling to Mictlán

Isabel Fabian carves the bat from a single piece of copal wood

completely alive

A one-of-a-kind beauty

The mane fans out behind like a crown of pointed flames

in pristine condition

This extraordinary dog is among the most spectacular pieces of painted woodcarving we have ever offered

where roses bloom in radiant shades of pink and purple