Female Effigy

AAT Object Form/FunctionStatuette

Place CreatedPeru, South America

CultureChancay

PeriodLate Intermediate

Date900-1450 CE

MediumCeramic

Credit LineGift of William C. and Carol W. Thibadeau

Dimensions18 1/4 x 11 3/4 x 5 in. (46.3 x 29.8 x 12.7 cm)

Object number1988.012.012

Exhibition HistoryPre-Columbian Art from the Collections of Paul A. Clifford and William C. Thibadeau, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, February 13 - April 4, 1971
Seeing with New Eyes: Pre-Columbian Art from the Thibideau Collection, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, March 4 - October 13, 1992
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - 2001
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 13, 2002 - June 2012
'For I am the Black Jaguar': Shamanic Visionary Experience in Ancient American Art, September 5, 2012 - January 5, 2013
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, February 9, 2013 - March 13, 2019
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, July 2, 2019 - August 16, 2021
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, March 14, 2022 - April 5, 2024
Published ReferencesPre-Columbian Art from the Collections of Paul A. Clifford and William C. Thibadeau (Atlanta: High Museum, 1971), plate XLIII.
Michael C. Carlos Museum Handbook (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 1996), 87.
Nancy Oakley, "Female Effigy in the Chancay Style at the Michael C. Carlos Museum," Sky (August 2000): 32.
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), 246-47, figure 558.
MCCM Newsletter, March - May 2002.
Michael C. Carlos Museum Highlights of the Collections (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2011), 81.
MCCM Newsletter, Fall/Winter 2012.
Rebecca Stone, Art of the Andes:From Chavin to Inca. 3rd Edition (London: Thames & Hudson, 2012), frontispiece.
Rebecca Stone, The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011), 161, figures 7.10 - 7.12.
Susan Migden Socolow, The Women of Colonial Latin America. 2nd Edition (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015), Figure 1.

ProvenanceEx coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, purchased from Alan C. Lapiner (1933-1975) [Arts of the Four Quarters], New York, New York, September 28,1968.

Status

Not on view

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