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Olmec Fantastic Creature - PF.0329
Origin: Guerrero, Mexico
Circa: 900
BC
to 400
BC
Dimensions:
10.5" (26.7cm) high
Catalogue: V2
Collection: Pre-Columbian
Medium: Terracotta
Location: United States
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| Description |
Olmec mythology is filled with fantastic beings,
freakish monsters who seem to survive from a
more chaotic age before men and beasts took
separate identities. This is a particularly
fascinating example--a creature with a distorted
human head, a bloated body, and a powerful tail
like a kangaroo. The iconographic significance of
this figure has vanished from memory, but the
image continues to perturb, to challenge our
complacent explanations of the human past.
- (PF.0329)
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