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

ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Large Drum with Incised Step-Fret Patterns

AAT Object Form/FunctionDrums (membranophones)

Place CreatedColombia, South America

CultureNariño

PeriodTuza Period

Date1250-1500 CE

MediumCeramic

Credit LineGift of William C. and Carol W. Thibadeau

Dimensions8 1/2 x 6 1/8 in. (21.6 x 15.5 cm)

Object number1990.011.017

Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - September 1998
Shamans, Gods and Mythic Beasts: Colombian Gold and Ceramics in Antiquitiy, Michael C. Carlos Museum, October 31, 1998 - January 10, 1999
Shamans, Gods and Mythic Beasts: Colombian Gold and Ceramics in Antiquity (travelling show), Mingei International Museum of Folk Art, San Diego, California, January 29 - April 11, 1999; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida, April 30 - July 11, 1999; The Frick Art and Historical Society, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 29 - October 10, 1999; Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Santa Ana, California, October 29, 1999 - January 9, 2000
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, Sept. 5, 2012 - January 5, 2013
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, February 9, 2013 - March 13, 2019
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, July 2, 2019 - Present
Published ReferencesArmand J. Labbe, Shamans, Gods, and Mythic Beasts: Colombian Gold and Ceramics in Antiquity (New York: American Federation of Arts, 1998), 116, figure 94.
Rebecca 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), 187, figure 435.

ProvenanceEx coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, purchased from Kenneth Klassen, Bogota, Colombia, April 1, 1982.

Status

On view

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