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© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
Bead in the Form of a Knot
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Bead in the Form of a Knot

Place CreatedNorth America
PeriodLate Preclassic (Late Formative)
Date200 BCE-100 CE
MediumAgate
Credit LineGift of Cora W. and Laurence C. Witten II
Dimensions7/8 x 1 5/16 in. (2.2 x 3.3 cm)
Object number1992.015.097
Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 13, 2002 - June 2012
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, February 9, 2013 - May 13, 2019
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, July 2, 2019 - 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), 26, figure 30.
ProvenanceEx coll. Laurence (1926-1995) and Cora Witten, United States, possibly purchased from Spencer Throckmorton [Fine Arts of Ancient Lands], New York, New York, ca. 1980-1985.
Status
On view
Collections
  • Art of the Americas