Bowl with Painted Motifs

c.1929 - c.1936
Excavated at unknown site, Grant and/or Luna counties, NM [1]

by 1943 - 1944
Colonel Fain White King (1892-1972), Wickcliffe, KY [2]

1944 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Colonel Fain White King [3]


Notes:
[1] The excavation location is unknown for this object, but based on correspondence dated May 2, 1944 and July 13, 1944 from King to Thomas Hoopes, curator at the City Art Museum, the material purchased by the Museum [103-119:1944, 216:1977] was excavated from sites in Grant and Luna counties, New Mexico. Some sites were located on the border of the two counties. Although the excavation date is unknown, a letter dated May 2, 1944 from King to Hoopes states “the excavations were made over a period of years, from 1929 to 1936” [SLAM document files].

[2] The method of transfer is not known, but according to a letter dated December 16, 1943 from Colonel Fain White King to Thomas T. Hoopes, curator at the City Art Museum, King was preparing to “secure the only great collection of the famous rare Mimbres Valley pottery not in a museum." In a letter dated January 2, 1944 from King to Hoopes, King states he “secured the finest collection known of the Mimbres Valley prehistoric pottery...” [letters in SLAM document files].

[3] An invoice dated May 12, 1944 from Colonel Fain White King to the City Art Museum documents the purchase of this object, listed as "Number 164, Pottery Bowl, Mimbres" [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Administrative Board of Control of the City Art Museum, May 11, 1944.