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

ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Secondary Burial Urn with Seated Female on Lid

AAT Object Form/FunctionCremation Urn

Place CreatedColombia, South America

CultureMoskito

Date1000-1500 CE

MediumCeramic

Credit LineGift of William C. and Carol W. Thibadeau

Dimensions18 7/8 x 12 15/16 x 7 7/8 in. (47.9 x 32.8 x 20 cm)

Object number1990.011.001 A

Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - January 10, 1994
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, November 1996 - 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 - March 13, 2019
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, July 2, 2019 - August 16, 2021
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, March 14, 2022 - April 5, 2024
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), 184, figure 431a.
Rebecca Stone, The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011), 75, figure 4.3.

ProvenanceEx coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, purchased from Kenneth Klassen, Bogota, Colombia, December 26, 1980.

Status

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