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

ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Armadillo Bead

Place CreatedCosta Rica, North America

CultureAtlantic Watershed or La Selva-Curridabat

PeriodPeriod V

Date500-800 CE

MediumAndesite

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

Dimensions3/4 x 1 11/16 x 9/16 in. (1.9 x 4.3 x 1.5 cm)

Object number1991.004.197

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
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), 156, figure 372.

ProvenanceEx coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, purchased December 1976.

Status

Not on view

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