Painted by a Distant Hand: Mimbres Pottery from the American Southwest

by Steven A. LeBlanc

Highlighting one of the Peabody Museum's most important archaeological expeditions--the excavation of the Swarts Ranch Ruin in southwestern New Mexico by Harriet and Burton Cosgrove in the mid-1920s--Steven LeBlanc's book features rare, never-before-published examples of Mimbres painted pottery, considered by many scholars to be the most unique of all the ancient art traditions of North America. Made between A.D. 1000 and 1150, these pottery bowls...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873654021
• ISBN13: 9780873654029
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology,
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.2" x 8.6"