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© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University.  Photo by Michael McKelvey
Slit Drum with Crouching Feline
© 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

Slit Drum with Crouching Feline

Place CreatedCosta Rica, North America
PeriodPeriod IV
Date300 BCE-500 CE
MediumCeramic
Credit LineEx coll. William C. and Carol W. Thibadeau
Dimensions10 1/4 x 2 3/4 in. (26 x 7 cm)
Object number1991.004.088
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, 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 - 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), 130, figure 278.
ProvenanceEx coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, purchased September 1968.
Status
On view
Collections
  • Art of the Americas