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

Seated Male Figure

Place CreatedCosta Rica, North America
CultureCartago-La Cabana
PeriodPeriod VI
Date1000-1520 CE
MediumMedium grained basalt
Credit LineEx coll. William C. and Carol W. Thibadeau
Dimensions9 x 6 x 6 3/4 in. (22.9 x 15.2 x 17.1 cm)
Object number1991.004.215
Exhibition HistoryMCCM 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, 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), 140, figure 307.
MCCM Newsletter, Fall/Winter 2012.
Rebecca Stone, The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011), 75, figure 4.4.
ProvenanceEx coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, purchased October 1977.
Status
On view
Collections
  • Art of the Americas