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Location: Hueyapan de Mimendez Monument 2 was found by a local inhabitant, Manuel Hernandez R., in the Arroyo Hueapan just south of Hueyapan de Mimendez in 1975 or 1976 and was placed in the site museum during the same year.
Associations: None recorded.
Condition: Head and shoulders missing, left arm missing to shoulder, remainder in good condition. Break at chest has been smoothed.
Photographs: Present report, Plate 52; Schau 1983:314.
Drawings: Present report, Figures 47, 48, 49, 50; Schau 1983: Figure 287.
References: de la Fuente 1973, Schau 1983.
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 36 cm, Width 40 cm. Depth at chest 17 cm, Depth at legs 33 cm.
Description: Hueyapan de Mimendez Monument 2 is a kneeling potbelly sculpture with its head, shoulders and left arm removed. The body consists of a single pear-shaped mass with two projections in front representing the knees. The crease between the calf and the thigh is represented by simple incision with no attempt to separate the two forms into distinct volumes. The existing, right, arm is ornamented with a single wrist band. A hollow trough runs vertically up the center of the back. The belly is swelling and rounded and, in combination with the thick rounded relief arms, gives an impression of greater volume than is actually present.
Remarks: De la Fuente lists a "Monumento R" with the following dimensions and description "35 cm. de alto; de 50 a 57 cm. de ancho; 52 cm. de spesor...Su condicion actual no permite definir como seria su apariencia original. Los brazos estan flexionados en angulo agudo y recogidos a un lado y parcialmente debajo del cuerpo; son gruesos. Lo que parece ser el torso forma una protuberancia. La espalda tiene una oquedad...Lleva bandas dobles en la muneca izquierda." (de la Fuente 1973:306).
Specific similarities between the preceding description of Monument R and Hueyapan de Mimendez Monument 2 of this report are the single wrist band, the hollow back, the protuberant torso, the thick bent arms and the approximate dimensions. No other sculpture from the Tres Zapotes region closely resembles de la Fuente's description. The only explanation for the discrepancy between descriptions is that de la Fuente was working from a reversed transparency of "Monument R".
