© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.

ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Pigmented Stamp with Concentric Circular Design

Place CreatedCosta Rica, North America

CultureGreater Nicoya

PeriodPeriod IV - Period V (?)

Dateca. 1-700 CE

MediumCeramic, pigment

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

Dimensions1 3/4 x 1 3/16 in. (4.4 x 3 cm)

Object number1991.004.186

Exhibition HistoryMCCM 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 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), 113, figure 233.
Rebecca Stone, The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011), 115, figure 5.30.

ProvenanceEx coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, purchased February 1968.

Status

On view

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