Bowl with Painted Motifs

1936
Excavated at 2C Ranch, 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] Documentation presumably provided by Colonel Fain White King states that 119:1944 was from "Location 2C Ranch…Excavated 5/31’36” [SLAM document files]. The exact location of the 2C Ranch is unknown, 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 [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 207, Pottery Bowl, Mimbres" [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Administrative Board of Control of the City Art Museum, May 11, 1944.