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ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Black Ocelot-Shaman Head Vessel

Place CreatedCosta Rica, North America

CultureGreater Nicoya

PeriodPeriod V - Period VI

Date700-1350 CE

MediumCeramic

Credit LineEx coll. William C. and Carol W. Thibadeau

Dimensions7 x 6 1/2 in. (17.8 x 16.5 cm)

Object number1991.004.562

Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - September 1996
Five Continents - Nine Millennia, Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport, International Concourse E, Atlanta, Georgia, March 1997 - February 1, 1999
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, September 5, 2012 - January 5, 2013
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), 92, figure 177.
Rebecca Stone, The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011), 137, figure 6.10.

ProvenanceEx coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, purchased July 1984.

Status

Not on view

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