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© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
Severed Head Effigy
© 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

Severed Head Effigy

Place CreatedCosta Rica, Europe
PeriodPeriod VI
Date1000-1520 CE
MediumVesicular olivine basalt
Credit LineEx coll. William C. and Carol W. Thibadeau
Dimensions5 x 4 3/4 x 5 1/4 in. (12.7 x 12.1 x 13.3 cm)
Object number1991.004.042
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, 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), 140, figure 310.
Rebecca Stone, The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011), 89, figure 4.18.
ProvenanceEx coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, acquired from Enrique Vargas (Enrique Vargas Alfaro) (1915-2008), San Jose, Costa Rica, September 1968.
Status
On view
Collections
  • Art of the Americas