Stirrup-Spout Vessel with Feline and Cactus

1. André Emmerich, New York, by 1969 [Emmerich catalogue no. AS-227; invoice, Jan. 18, 1969, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Museum of Art, Utica, NY, Feb. 18, 1969 [accession number 69.4; Furst 1972, 114, fig. 22]; consigned to Claudia Giangola and John Menser, Ancient Art of the New World, New York [Bill of Sale, Sept. 12, 2000, and incoming permanent receipt RX22894, Sept. 28, 2000, copies in curatorial object file, Arts of the Americas]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2000.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/7966/the-ancient-americas-art-from-sacred-landscapes"><em>The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes</em></a>, Oct. 10, 1992–Jan. 3, 1993, cat. 42, as <em>Vessel Depicting Jaguar, Possibly Representing a Shaman</em>; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Feb. 4–April 18, 1993; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 6–Aug. 15, 1993.

• Peter Furst, ed. <Flesh of the Gods: The Ritual use of Hallucinogens</em> (Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 1972), 114, fig. 22 (ill).
• Alana Cordy-Collins, “The Jaguar of the Backwards Glance” in <em>Icons of Power: Feline Symbolism in the Americas</em>, Nicholas Saunders, ed. (London: Routledge Press, 1989), 161.
• Alan C. Lapiner, <em>Precolumbian Art of South America</em> (H. M. Abrams, 1976), 41, figs. 40, 41.
• Richard Townsend, ed., <em>The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), 273, 376, cat. 42, fig. 12 (ill.), as <em>Vessel Depicting Jaguar, Possibly Representing a Shaman</em>.
• Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, <em>Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 281, cat. 225.
• Matthew Brennan, "Vessel with Double-Horned Spouts: 3D Model," Sketchfab, accessed Feb. 2, 2026, <a href="https://skfb.ly/pFXwX">https://skfb.ly/pFXwX</a>.

Arm bands

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Spoon

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Spoon

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