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© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
Rectangular Ceremonial Jaguar Effigy Metate
© 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

Rectangular Ceremonial Jaguar Effigy Metate

Place CreatedCosta Rica, North America
CultureAtlantic Watershed
PeriodPeriod IV - Period V
Date300-700 CE
MediumBasaltic andesite
Credit LineEx coll. William C. and Carol W. Thibadeau
Dimensions7 x 19 x 7 3/4 in. (17.8 x 48.2 x 19.7 cm)
Object number1991.004.049
Exhibition HistorySeeing 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
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, February 9, 2013 - March 18, 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), 137, figure 302.
Rebecca Stone, The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011), 119, figure 5.36.
ProvenanceEx coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, purchased November 1968.
Status
On view
Collections
  • Art of the Americas