ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Anthropomorphic Bird Half-Celt Pendant

Place CreatedCosta Rica, North America

CultureEarly Greater Nicoya - Greater Nicoya

PeriodPeriod IV

Date300 BCE-500 CE

MediumJadeite, quartz

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

Dimensions9 3/4 x 3 1/4 in. (24.8 x 8.2 cm)

Object number1991.004.502

Exhibition HistorySeeing with New Eyes: Pre-Columbian Art from the Thibadeau Collection, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, March 4 - October 13, 1992
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 13, 2002 - June 2012
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, February 9, 2013 - March 18, 2019
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, July 2, 2019 - Present
Published ReferencesDeidre M. Thompson, "Chief among Valuables," Lapidary Journal (November 1992): 44-49.
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), 150, figure 350.
Michael C. Carlos Museum: Highlights of the Collections (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2011), 71.
Laura M. Wingfield, "Greenstone Axe to Gold Eagle Pendant: The Sex Change of Costa Rica's Symbol of National Pride," in Dressing the Part: Power, Dress, Gender, and Representation in the Pre-Columbian Americas, ed. Sarahh E.M. Scher and Billie J.A. Follensbee (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017), 339, figure 9.8a-b.

ProvenanceEx private collection, Florida, from 1970. Ex coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, purchased from Julio Castro Vargas, March 22, 1989.

Status

On view

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