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

ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Roller Stamp with Stepped Diamond-Fret Designs

Place CreatedCosta Rica, North America

CultureGreater Nicoya/Atlantic Watershed

PeriodPeriod IV - Period V

Date1-700 CE

MediumCeramic

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

Dimensions2 3/8 x 1 3/8 in. (6 x 3.5 cm)

Object number1991.004.179

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
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, February 1998 - 2001
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 13, 2002 - June 2012
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, February 9, 2013 - Present
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), 113, figure 239.
Rebecca Stone, The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011), 115, figure 5.29.

ProvenanceEx coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, purchased December 1970.

Status

On view

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