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ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Leishmaniasis Survivor Effigy Vessel

AAT Object Form/FunctionFlasks (bottles)
Place CreatedPeru, South America
CultureMoche
Date1-650 CE
MediumCeramic
Credit LineGift of William C. and Carol W. Thibadeau
Dimensions8 7/16 x 5 7/16 in. (21.4 x 13.8 cm)
Object number1989.008.072
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
Seeing with New Eyes: Pre-Columbian Art from the Thibideau 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 9, 2013 - March 13, 2019
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, July 2, 2019 - Present
Published ReferencesRebecca Stone-Miller, Art of the Andes: From Chavin to Inca (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1995), 105, figure 88.
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), 227, figure 518.
Rebecca Stone, Art of the Andes: From Chavin to Inca. 3rd Edition (London: Thames and Hudson, 2012), 119, figure 103.
Rebecca Stone, The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011), 171, figure 7.19.
Rebecca R. Stone, "Empowered, Not Disabled: An Ancient Shaman Effigy Vessel at the Carlos Museum," Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation (April 30, 2018): 1-9.
Sarahh M. Scher, "Bodies in Both Worlds: A Preliminary Comparison of Human and Supernatural Dress in Moche Art," in Ceramics of Ancient America: Multidisciplinary Approaches, ed. Yumi Park Huntington et al. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2018), 169, Figure 6.7.
ProvenanceEx coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, purchased from Frederick R. Mayer (1928-2007), Denver, Colorado, October 1971.
Status
On view
Collections
  • Art of the Americas