Pataky Jaguar

Possible OriginCosta Rica, Central America, North America

Possible OriginNicaragua, Central America, North America

CultureGreater Nicoya

PeriodPeriod V

Date1000-1350 CE

MediumCeramic

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

Dimensions12 x 8 1/2 in. (30.5 x 21.6 cm)

Object number1991.004.337

Exhibition HistoryPre-Columbian Art from the Collections of Paul A. Clifford and William C. Thibadeau, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, February 13 - April 4, 1971
Pre-Columbian Art in Southern Collections, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama, September 9 - October 28, 1979
Seeing 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
'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 09, 2013 - Present
Published ReferencesPre-Columbian Art from the Collection of Paul A. Clifford and William C. Thibadeau (Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 1971), cover.
Pre-Columbian Art in Southern Collections: September 9 - October 28, 1979 (Huntsville: Huntsville Museum of Art, 1979), 38, 47, number 70.
Michael 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), 108, figure 222.
MCCM Newsletter, September - November 2002.
Rebecca Stone-Miller, "Human-Animal Imagery, Shamanic Visions, and Ancient American Aesthetics," RES 45 (2004): 57, figure 8.
MCCM Newsletter, September - November 2009.
Michael C. Carlos Museum: Highlights of the Collections (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2011), 73.
Maxwell Anderson, The Quality Instinct: Seeing Art through a Museum Director's Eye (Washington DC: American Association of Museums Press, 2012).
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), 108-109, figures 5.18 - 5.21.
Promotional brochure for ArtStor Shared Shelf, 2016.
Promotional conference banner for ArtStor Shared Shelf, 2016.
Rebecca R. Stone, "Empowered, Not Disabled: An Ancient Shaman Effigy Vessel at the Carlos Museum," Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation (April 30, 2018): 4.

ProvenanceEx coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, purchased from Enrique Vargas (Enrique Vargas Alfaro) (1915-2008), San Jose, Costa Rica, March 1969.

Status

On view

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