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

ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Oval Ceremonial Metate with Female Effigy Legs

Place CreatedCosta Rica, North America

CultureAtlantic Watershed or La Selva-Curridabat

PeriodPeriod IV - Period V

Date300-700 CE

MediumBasaltic andesite

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

Dimensions11 1/8 x 30 1/8 x 20 1/2 in. (28.3 x 76.5 x 52 cm)

Object number1991.004.204

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, May 11, 1993 - 2001
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 13, 2002 - June 2012
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, February 9, 2013 - February 6, 2017
Published ReferencesMichael C. Carlos Museum Handbook (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 1996), 80.
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), 137, figure 301.

ProvenanceProbably exported from Costa Rica by Enrique Vargas (Enrique Vargas Alfaro) (1915-2008), San Jose, Costa Rica, February 15, 1973. Ex coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, probably purchased from Vargas, June 1973.

Status

Not on view

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