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MISCELLANEOUS 5

Location: Said to be from the vicinity of Tres Zapotes, in possession of private collector in Santiago.

Associations: None recorded.

Condition: Extant fragment well preserved.

Photographs: Present report, Plate 44.

Drawings: None.

Carved Areas: Sculpture in the round.

Material: This monument was found subsequent to Williams' work. However, there is nothing about it to suggest that its material is any different than that of Monument 1.

Dimensions: Height 15 cm, Width 10 cm, Depth 16 cm.

Description: Miscellaneous 5 is a portion of the snout and left cheek of a grotesque head. The nose is human but the incisors are unusually large and the cheek is so deeply and powerfully modeled that some human/animal combination must have been intended.