ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Black Fish Effigy

AAT Object Form/Functioneffigies (general portraits)

AAT Object Techniquereliefs (sculptures)

Place CreatedColombia, South America

CultureTumaco/La Tolita

Date300 BCE-300 CE

MediumCeramic

Credit LineGift of William C. and Carol W. Thibadeau

Dimensions3 1/2 x 11 x 1/4 in. (8.9 x 28 x 0.6 cm)

Object number1990.011.043

Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - October 1996
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 13, 2002 - June 2012
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), 179, figure 421.

ProvenanceEx coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, purchased from Kenneth Klassen, Burnaby, British Columbia, April 9, 1981.

Status

Not on view

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