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Wingz of Power - Native American Jewelry
Pottery, Sage Herbs and Feathers

Hand Painted Native American
Clay Pottery Christmas Decoration
By Kimo De Cora


 Condition- New
 Item- Native American Indian Pottery
 Artist- Kimo de Cora
 Tribe- Isleta Pueblo
 Size- 2.60 inches by 3.25 inches
 Weight- 2.40 ounces
 Original & Authentic- Hallmark stamped & Signed


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DESCRIPTION
This hard to find one of a kind collectors Native American designed hand painted clay ornament by Kimo De Cora is decorated with Mimbres designs. As this is an individually hand painted clay bulb the designs will vary.

INFO
The Mimbres culture consisted of several hundred small villages in southern New MexicNew Mexico, each with less than 200 inhabitants, existing between approximately A.D. 100 and A.D. 1150. Their valley supported a rich diversity of wildlife, and the people lead a peaceful existence, relying on gathering, hunting, and some limited farming.
Mimbres pottery is known as "Mimbres black-on-white" or "Mimbres Classic black-on-white" . Variations in firing can cause the pigments to be brown or red and the clay to be a light gray or buff. The Anasazi typically used black-on-white and the Hohokam used red, brown and buff.
Many Mimbres designs are painted in steep sided hemispheric bowls, typically about ten inches in diameter and less than five inches high. Painting such a bowl is complicated, since a flat image must be distorted in the proper way in order to look right when painted onto the curved inner surface of the bowl. This is the same type of problem faced when Michaelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, albeit it on a much smaller, and more manageable, scale.
Early Mimbres designs resemble those of the Hohokam, but soon diverged into a form all their own. Late Mimbres designs are similar to those of the Casa Grandes, or "Big House" , culture to the south.
This is interesting given that Casa Grandes was becoming a thriving culture about the time that the Mimbres culture collapsed. The influence was likely caused by immigration from the collapsing Mimbres culture, but it could simply have been the result of trading or other interaction. (Casa Grandes is believed to have traded a number of goods, including parrots and copper items.)
Nobody knows exactly why the Mimbres disappeared. Archaeological
evidence suggests that towards the end the Mimbres suffered a population boom that swelled their population to the point that they were forced to farm highly marginal lands and exceed the land's capacity to supply firewood and game.
When it became impossible to eke out a living, the population migrated sometime circa A.D. 1150 and their culture collapsed and the people dispersed. With their passing, Mimbres pottery vanished along with the remains of its makers for almost eight hundred years. The discovery of Mimbres pottery in the early part of this century led to research and digs, not all of which were made by archaeologists. A growing market for Mimbres pottery led to the influx of professional looters who used bulldozers to strip-mine sites in a quest for salable objects.
The destruction of a site means that pottery and other artifacts cannot be studied in situ, and that information which has survived for centuries vanishes in a matter of hours.
Archaeologists date artifacts by the layers in which they are found and make inferences based on what objects are found together. When an artifact is removed by a looter valuable information about its age and purpose are irrevocably lost, even though the object may later be recovered. Roughly half of all known Mimbres sites have been destroyed by looters, and most of what is known of Mimbres culture comes from the early finds made by archaeologists before the influx of looters.
ARTIST
Kimo de Cora is a potter that lives in the Isleta Pueblo in New Mexico.Ten years after graduating from Haskell Junior College, Kimo began his artistic career as a painter. He draws his inspiration from his love of the outdoors and his visits to ancient ruins. For the last six years, Kimo has studied Tai Chi Chun and he believes in has enhanced his brushwork and has opened him to different ways to be more creative and productive.


WEIGHT
2.40 ounces

SIZE
This bulb measures 2.60 inches side by side and 3.25 inches top to bottom. It is 8 ½ “ C.


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AUTHENTICITY

Certificate of Authenticity - This original piece of Native American art is new unless otherwise listed as vintage or pawn. It will arrive accompanied by our official Letter of Authenticity which documents the Native American artists name, tribal affiliation, gemstone materials, sterling silver and the price you paid so that it will help you establish and maintain accurate records. We take the utmost care in shipping it to you and it will arrive cleaned, polished and well packed for safety in a sealed bag wrapped in tissue paper in a gift bag.


We travel to New Mexico, the Native American jewelry capital of the world, and visit other artists throughout the Southwest 4 to 5 times a year to purchase direct from the traders or the artists themselves. My mother was born and raised in the West and still lives and works in the Grand Canyon. The Native Americans have always been a part of our lives and we have always surrounded ourselves with their culture and beautiful works of art.
All of our items are bought directly from individual artists or from well established, well known wholesalers and traders between Gallup, the reservations, Santa Fe and Albuquerque. We love to buy directly from the artists so we can support their craft as well as provide them a living for their incredible talents. It helps to bypass the middleman so we can send money back to our adopted families at the reservation.

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