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© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
Brown Ware Vessel with Intertwined Rattlesnakes
© 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

Brown Ware Vessel with Intertwined Rattlesnakes

Place CreatedColombia, South America
CultureTairona
Date1000-1500 CE
MediumCeramic
Credit LineGift of Cora W. and Laurence C. Witten II
Dimensions4 1/4 x 1 3/8 in. (10.8 x 3.5 cm)
Object number1992.015.051
Exhibition HistoryMCCM 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 9, 2013 - March 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), 183, figure 429.
ProvenanceEx coll. Laurence (1926-1995) and Cora (1931-2023) Witten, United States, possibly purchased from Spencer Throckmorton [Fine Arts of Ancient Lands], New York, New York, 1984.
Status
On view
Collections
  • Art of the Americas