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

Spear Point

Place CreatedCosta Rica, North America
CultureAtlantic Watershed
PeriodPeriod IV
Date1-500 CE
MediumMicrocrystalline quartz variety, chert with stringers of jasper and fragments of quartz
Credit LineEx coll. William C. and Carol W. Thibadeau
Dimensions5 1/8 x 1 3/4 in. (13 x 4.4 cm)
Object number1991.004.531
Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - 2001
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), 146, figure 330.
ProvenanceEx coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, purchased May 1981.
Status
Not on view
Collections
  • Art of the Americas