ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Globular Effigy Head Vessel

Place CreatedCosta Rica, North America

PeriodPeriod V

Date500-800 CE

MediumCeramic

Credit LineEx coll. William C. and Carol W. Thibadeau

Dimensions4 7/8 x 9 in. (12.4 x 22.8 cm)

Object number1991.004.032

Exhibition HistoryRecent Acquisitions, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, March 1 - October 13, 1992
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - September 1996
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 13, 2002 - June 2012
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, February 9, 2013 - Present
Published ReferencesRebecca Stone-Miller, Seeing With New Eyes: Highlights of the Michael C. Carlos Museum Collection of Art of the Ancient Americas (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2002), 84-85, figure 157.
Rebecca Stone, The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011), 145-46, figures 6.19 - 6.22.

ProvenanceEx coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, purchased January 1986.

Status

On view

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