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An Olmec “Were-Jaguar” from the Yucatan Peninsula

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

George Metcalf  and
Kent V. Flannery
George Metcalf
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560
Kent V. Flannery
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560
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Abstract

A feline sculpture in serpentinite from Dsibalchen on the Yucatan Peninsula (probably in the northeast part of the state of Campeche) was found by Teobert Maler in 1887. Its half-human face shares characteristics of the Olmec "were-jaguar" sculptures of Veracruz and Tabasco.

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American Antiquity , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , January 1967 , pp. 109 - 111
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1967

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