Object Title
Metate
Measurements
17.8 x 48.2 x 19.7 cm
Creation Date
300-700 CE
Credit Line
Ex coll. William C. and Carol W. Thibadeau
Museum Name
Museum Contact
ashanle@emory.edu
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
https://collections.carlos.emory.edu/objects/22275/rectangular-ceremonial-jaguar-effigy-metate?ctx=9695d2cf32a59847f2d072fb692e5b44942618c6&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 November 1968.
Exhibition Information
Seeing with New Eyes: Pre-Columbian Art from the Thibideau Collection, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, March 4 - October 13, 1992
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - 2001
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 13, 2002 - June 2012
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, February 9, 2013 - March 18, 2019
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, July 2, 2019 - Present
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - 2001
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 13, 2002 - June 2012
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, February 9, 2013 - March 18, 2019
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, July 2, 2019 - Present
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), 137, figure 302.
Rebecca Stone, The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011), 119, figure 5.36.
Rebecca Stone, The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011), 119, figure 5.36.
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
Acquired by museum in 1991.