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The Mimbreños were a part of the Native American Apache tribe. They were located in present day
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were usually in groups near the river. Their adobe houses are also known as
The Mimbreños were a part of the Native American Apache tribe. They were located in present day New Mexico
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, population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano)
, seat = Santa Fe, New Mexico, Santa Fe
, LargestCity = Albuquerque, New Mexico, Albuquerque
, LargestMetro = Albuquerque metropolitan area, Tiguex
, Offi ...
in the narrow valley of the Mimbres River
The Mimbres is a river in southwestern New Mexico.
Course
The Mimbres forms from snowpack and runoff on the southwestern slopes of the Aldo Leopold Wilderness in the Black Range at in Grant County. The river ends in the Guzmán Basin, a smal ...
.Nesbitt, Paul Homer, 1904. The Ancient Mimbreños, Based on Investigations at the Mattocks Ruin. Wisconsin: Logan Museum, Beloit College 1931
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1931. Web. The band at this location were known as the Tchihende band; another band was affiliated with the Chiricahua.
Culture and architecture
Mimbrenos were creative in their artwork and often worked inadobe
Adobe ( ; ) is a building material made from earth and organic materials. is Spanish for '' mudbrick''. In some English-speaking regions of Spanish heritage, such as the Southwestern United States, the term is used to refer to any kind of ...
. They created intricate pottery from this and would decorate it. They would make bowls and use them in burials as well. For the pottery they also had different color schemes to represent different things.Scott, Jorden. ''Connections between the Mimbreños People and Local Avian Species'' (2020). Web. Stone was another important tool they used to create weapons. Often they would create axes, hammers, and spades all from stone. Clay and metal also were materials used; clay tablets
In the Ancient Near East, clay tablets (Akkadian ) were used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age.
Cuneiform characters were imprinted on a wet clay tablet with a stylus ...
were used to inscribe messages or even create game boards. Bones from the animals they hunted were used as decoration around their home or fashioned as weapons.
Their houses were mostly made out of adobe and stone. They would level off the ground and build the walls up around the ground from which they leveled. Theihouses
were usually in groups near the river. Their adobe houses are also known as
Pueblo
In the Southwestern United States, Pueblo (capitalized) refers to the Native tribes of Puebloans having fixed-location communities with permanent buildings which also are called pueblos (lowercased). The Spanish explorers of northern New Spain ...
. The roofs of the house were typically something heavy like metal. They also contained fireplaces in the middle which would be dug out from the floor and contented stone or adobe.
Many scholars view Mimbreño's and their culture to be overall peaceful and defensive towards war and destruction.Worcester, Donald E. ''The Apaches : Eagles of the Southwest / by Donald E. Worcester.'' 1st ed. Norman: U of Oklahoma, 1979. Civilization of the American Indian Ser.; 149. Web. It appears that they would take part in leisure activities to fill their extra time like pottery and art versus war.Yale University. Art Gallery. ''Designs of the Mimbreños : An Exhibition of Zoomorphic Decorations on Indian Pottery from the Mimbres River Valley, New Mexico; 15 March through 15 April 1956''. Connecticut: Associates in Fine Arts at Yale U, 1956?, 1956. Web.
Religion
Mimbreños celebrated burials and would commonly place the deceased in a seated position.Sauer. (1931). NESBITT: The Ancient Mimbrenos, etc. (Book Review). American Anthropologist, 33, 636. Notable people would be buried with utensils to take with them into the next life. Decorated bowls would often be buried with the dead. The Mimbrenos believed that what they placed with the dead would be carried with them into the afterlife for them to use. The designs on the pottery the Mimbreños created is assumed to represent their religious beliefs. Since there are many different designs, scholars are able to predict what they saw as important. Some of their pottery had intricate geometric shapes which led scholars to believe that they held a strong importance with emotion. Zoomorphic decorations were popular designs.Innovations
The Mimbrenos developed their ownirrigation
Irrigation (also referred to as watering) is the practice of applying controlled amounts of water to land to help grow crops, landscape plants, and lawns. Irrigation has been a key aspect of agriculture for over 5,000 years and has been dev ...
system. This irrigation system made it possible for the Mimbrenos to stay in one place.Ackerly, Neal W. (1997). Mimbreno and Gileno Apache Irrigation Systems, 1853-1859. The Kiva (Tucson, Ariz.), 62(4), 349-363. This is different to other tribes that would have to be more nomadic because they needed to find different food sources. In the end however, the irrigation system failed because it is believed that they did not sufficiently use the Mimbres River as they developed their agricultural society.
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