Gorget (Pendant) with Spirals

Place CreatedNorth America

CultureMississippian

PeriodMississippian

Date15th Century CE

MediumShell

Credit LineWarren K. Moorehead's Phillips Academy Excavations, 1925-1928

Dimensions3 7/8 x 2 15/16 in. (9.8 x 7.4 cm)

Object numberX.0232.007

Exhibition HistoryA Preview of the Collections, Schatten Gallery, February 15 - April 4, 1982
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, January 1996 - 2001
Spider Woman to Horned Serpent: Creation and Creativity in Native North American Art, Michael C. Carlos Museum, March 7, 2015 - May 29, 2016
Law and Grace: Martin Luther, Lucas Cranach, and the Promise of Salvation, Pitts Theology Exhibition Gallery, Emory University, October 11, 2016 - January 16, 2017
MCCM Permanent Collection Gallery, March 21, 2018 - July 21, 2022
Published ReferencesEmory University Museum of Art and Archaeology: A Preview of the Collections (Atlanta: The Museum, 1982), 10, number S.58.
Tomoko Emmerling, et al., Law and Grace: Martin Luther, Lucas Cranach, and the Promise of Salvation (Halle (Saale): Landesamt fur Denkmalpflege und Archaeologie Sachsen-Anhalt - Landesmuseum fur Vorgeschichte, 2017), 75, number 16.3

ProvenanceProbably acquired between 1928-1929 via Margaret E. Ashley representing Emory University in Etowah excavations by Warren K. Moorehead of the Phillips Academy.

Status

Not on view

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