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

ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Peg-Based Standing Figure

Possible OriginCosta Rica, North America

Possible OriginPanama, Central America, North America

CultureChiriqui, Diquis

PeriodPeriod V

Date800-1000 CE

MediumAndesite

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

Dimensions14 5/8 x 7 1/4 x 3 1/2 in. (37.1 x 18.4 x 8.9 cm)

Object number1991.004.207

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
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), 143, figure 311.
Rebecca Stone-Miller, "Human-Animal Imagery, Shamanic Visions, and Ancient American Aesthetics," RES 45 (2004): 60, figure 9.

ProvenanceEx coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, purchased October 1972.

Status

Not on view

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