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© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
Carved Batten with Figures
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Carved Batten with Figures

Place CreatedOaxaca, Mexico, North America
CultureMixtec
PeriodEarly Postclassic
Dateca. 900-1200 CE
MediumAnimal bone
Credit LineGift of Cora W. and Laurence C. Witten II
Dimensions8 1/8 x 1 1/4 in. (20.7 x 3.2 cm)
Object number1994.018.013
Exhibition HistoryExotic Art from Ancient and Primitive Civilizations: Collection of Jay C. Leff, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 15, 1959 - January 3, 1960
Ancient Art of Latin America from the Collection of Jay C. Leff, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, November 22, 1966 - March 5, 1967
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 13, 2002 - October 1, 2004
MCCM Permanent Collection Gallery, February 1, 2005 - June 2012
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, February 9, 2013 - July 3, 2017
Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, Michael C. Carlos Museum, August 19 - December 17, 2017
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, February 2018 - March 13, 2019
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, July 2, 2019 - Present
Published ReferencesExotic Art from Ancient and Primitive Civilizations: Collection of Jay C. Leff (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1959), number 556.
Jay C. Leff and Elizabeth Kennedy Easby, Ancient Art of Latin America from the Collection of Jay C. Leff (New York: Brooklyn Museum, 1966), number 435.
Sotheby's New York, Important Pre-Columbian Art (May 12 and 13, 1983), lot 132.
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), 46-47, figure 76.
Michael C. Carlos Museum: Highlights of the Collections (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2011), 87.
Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, 2017, http://threads-of-time.carlos.emory.edu/items/show/96.
"The Best of the Best: Qumpi (Highest-Status Textiles) in Ancient Andean Thought and Practice," Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, 2017, http://threads-of-time.carlos.emory.edu/exhibits/show/essays/bestofthebest.
"The Ties that Bind: Ancient Maya Textiles and the Modern Tradition," Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, 2017, http://threads-of-time.carlos.emory.edu/exhibits/show/essays/tiesbind.
ProvenanceEx coll. Jay C. Leff (1924-2000), Uniontown, Pennsylvania, from at least 1959. Ex coll. Laurence (1926-1995) and Cora (1931-2023) Witten, United States, purchased from Sotheby's New York, May 12, 1983, lot 132.
Status
On view
Collections
  • Art of the Americas