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Location: Said to be from the vicinity of Tres Zapotes, in collection of regional museum in Santiago .
Associations: None recorded.
Condition: Broken but complete, fragments well preserved.
Photographs: Present report, Plate 45.
Drawings: None.
Carved Areas: Sculpture in the round.
Material: This monument was found subsequent to Williams' work. However, the stone is more fine grained than the local Cerro el Vigia basalt from which Monument 1 is made.
Dimensions: Height 22 cm, Width 20 cm, Depth 18 cm.
Description: Miscellaneous 8 is a hollow mask with sensitively modeled forms in a sophisticated style which foreshadows or echoes classic Veracruz style in the way it ornaments forms with raised fillets and incised lines. The mask represents a grotesque head with a beak, large semicircular ears and a crest composed of three scrolls. The round eye sockets are large and empty with semicircular supraorbital plates.
Remarks: Weiant (1943) illustrates a nearly identical mask in his Plate 71. Melgar (1871) illustrates another example of the same type of mask on the far right of his two illustrations (Figure 13b of the present study).
