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© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
Standing Female Figure with Stamped and Painted Body Art
© 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

Standing Female Figure with Stamped and Painted Body Art

Place CreatedCosta Rica, North America
CultureGreater Nicoya
PeriodPeriod V
Date500-800 CE
MediumCeramic
Credit LineEx coll. William C. and Carol W. Thibadeau
Dimensions8 5/8 x 3 3/4 x 2 3/4 in. (21.9 x 9.5 x 7 cm)
Object number1991.004.338
Exhibition HistoryPresident Chace's Office, Emory University, July 9, 1995 - August 30, 1996
President Chace's Office, Emory University, May 28, 1997 - March 1999
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), 86, figure 160.
Karen M. O'Day, "A Study of Painted Pottery from Sitio Conte Cemetery, Panama," PhD diss., Emory University, 2002, figure 3.3.
Rebecca Stone, The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011), 113-14, figures 5.26 - 5.27.
ProvenanceEx coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, purchased from Laurence Witten (1926-1995), Monroe, Connecticut, March 1976.
Status
On view
Collections
  • Art of the Americas