Flute in the Form of a Bat

Place CreatedCosta Rica, North America

CultureEarly Greater Nicoya or Greater Nicoya

PeriodPeriod IV

Date300 BCE-500 CE

MediumCeramic

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

Dimensions3 5/8 x 3 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. (9.2 x 8.9 x 3.8 cm)

Object number1991.004.021

Exhibition HistorySeeing with New Eyes: Pre-Columbian Art from the Thibideau Collection, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, March 4 - October 13, 1992
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - 2001
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 13, 2002 - June 2012
'For I am the Black Jaguar': Shamanic Visionary Experience in Ancient American Art, Michael C. Carlos Museum, September 5, 2012 - January 5, 2013
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, February 9, 2013 - Present
Published ReferencesMichael C. Carlos Museum Handbook (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 1996), 78.
Rebecca 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), 80, figure 146.
Rebecca Stone-Miller, "Curator's Choice: Ancient Bat Flute," The Catalogue of Antiques and Fine Art, 42-43.
MCCM Newsletter, December 2004 - February 2005.
Michael C. Carlos Museum: Highlights of the Collections (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2011), 69.

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

Status

On view

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