Object Title
Burial Urn
Measurements
47.9 x 32.8 x 20 cm
Creation Date
1000-1500 CE
Credit Line
Gift of William C. and Carol W. Thibadeau
Museum Contact
ashanle@emory.edu
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
https://collections.carlos.emory.edu/objects/17489/secondary-burial-urn-with-seated-female-on-lid?ctx=e581cb81376424fa1414fb7b6f72bdf2d21be2a3&idx=0
Museum's Definition of Antiquity
Older than 100 years
Provenance Information
Ex coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, purchased from Kenneth Klassen, Bogota, Colombia, December 26, 1980.
Exhibition Information
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - January 10, 1994;
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, November 1996 - 1998;
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;
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, February 9, 2013 - March 13, 2019;
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, July 2, 2019 - August 16, 2021;
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, March 14, 2022 - April 5, 2024
Publication Information
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), 184, figure 431a.;
Rebecca Stone, The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011), 75, figure 4.3.
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Gift or bequest expected or on loan prior to 2008
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
Gifted to museum in 1990.