Painted by a distant hand mimbres pottery from the american southwest peabody museum collections series by steven a leblanc2005 04 30 steven a leblanc books amazonca. Painted by a distant hand mimbres pottery from the american southwest peabody museum collections series by steven a leblanc 2005 04 30 steven a leblanc books amazonca. Painted by a distant hand mimbres pottery from the american southwest by steven a leblanc foreword by rubie watson photographs by hillel s burger highlighting one of the peabody museums most important archaeological expeditions the excavation of the swarts ranch ruin in southwestern new mexico by harriet and burton cosgrove in the mid 1920s steven leblancs book features rare . Painted by a distant hand traces the origins of the mimbres people and what became of them the exhibit also considers the meaning of the images who among the mimbres painted them and what scholars have learned about the mimbres in the 75 years since the cosgroves seminal expedition curated by steven leblanc. Painted by a distant hand is an excellent introduction to mimbres pottery the first part of the book is an essay by archaeologist steven a leblanc divided into short informative chapters such as a brief history of the mimbres people mimbres daily life and who painted the bowls