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© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
Single Tube Snuff Pipe
© 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

Single Tube Snuff Pipe

Place CreatedCosta Rica, North America
CultureEarly Atlantic Watershed - Atlantic Watershed
PeriodPeriod IV
Date100 BCE-500 CE
MediumCeramic
Credit LineEx coll. William C. and Carol W. Thibadeau
Dimensions1 1/2 x 4 1/8 in. (3.8 x 10.5 cm)
Object number1991.004.123
Exhibition HistoryMCCM 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, September 5, 2012 - January 5, 2013
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, February 9, 2013 - May 27, 2022
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, August 1, 2022 - 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), 132, figure 286.
ProvenanceEx coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, purchased from Enrique Vargas (Enrique Vargas Alfaro) (1915-2008), San Jose, Costa Rica, September 1, 1988.
Status
On view
Collections
  • Art of the Americas