Mimbres Burial

by Teresamarie Yawn

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10.000 x 10.000 inches

Title

Mimbres Burial

Artist

Teresamarie Yawn

Medium

Mixed Media - Ink And Colored Pencil On Bristol Board

Description

A drawing of a Mimbres burial. During the classic Mimbres period (about AD 1000 - 1150), the Mimbres people buried their dead beneath the floors of their homes. The deceased person may be placed in a sitting or prone position and a funerary bowl, decorated in classic Mimbres style, was placed on the person's head, or as in the case of an infant grave that was found, covering the entire body. The bowl usually had a hole punched near the center; scholar's today refer to this as the "kill hole". To me, it seems more like a "release hole", a place for the spirit of the dead to find its way from this life to the next. Others suggest the kill hole released the spirit of the bowl. Maybe both were released and the spirit of the bowl led the spirit of the deceased to the other side, to meet with ancestors that had already passed. However, such interpretations are speculative. The Mimbres left no written or oral stories for us to understand their practices or their art. But their burial practices and the beautiful images of birds, rabbits, lizards, cats and bears and other animals, as well as insects and people and strange mythical creatures, often wrapped in geometric designs, were apparently an important part of the Mimbres' relationship to their ancestry and their mortality as well as their beliefs concerning life after death. The border was created using a harmonograph, a 19th century drawing machine that uses the power and periodicity of pendulums to create geometric design, and a moving round table.

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