ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Anthropomorphic Quarter-Celt Pendant

Place CreatedCosta Rica, North America

CultureGreater Nicoya

PeriodPeriod IV - Period V

Date300-500 CE

MediumBasalt

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

Dimensions5 1/8 x 12 13/16 x 7/8 in. (13 x 32.5 x 2.2 cm)

Object number1991.004.553

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 Galleries, January 10, 1994 - 2001
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 13, 2002 - June 2012
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), 153, figure 360.
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 9.8c.

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

Status

On view

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