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An Olmec Serpentine Figurine at Dumbarton Oaks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Michael D. Coe
Michael D. Coe*
Affiliation:
Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
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Abstract

An Olmec figurine said to have been found at La Venta falls stylistically within the range of variation of other figurines known to be from that site. Four designs engraved on the upper parts of the limbs represent abstract were-jaguar heads identical with those of the serpentine mosaic pavements at La Venta. Thus, the pavements should be considered as examples of the Olmec style and not, as has been claimed, pre-Olmec.

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American Antiquity , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , January 1967 , pp. 111 - 113
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1967

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