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Location: Discovered by Stirling during winter 1938-9 in the central plaza of a small mound group "at a place known as La Puente on the Hacienda San Pedro de Aguirrez" (Stirling 1943:26). Placed in the site museum at its dedication in 1975.
Associations: None recorded.
Condition: Eroded, but otherwise well preserved.
Photographs: Present report, Plate 54; Stirling 1943: Plate 13a
Drawings: None.
Carved Areas: Sculpture in the round.
References: Stirling 1943.
Material: This monument was not tested by Williams. However, there is nothing about it to suggest that its material is any different than that of Monument 1.
Dimensions: Elbow to shoulder 150 cm.
Description: La Puente Monument 1 is a human? arm, conceived as a complete unit in itself, but probably intended as part of a composite sculpture. The arm is a single tapered form which is bent at the elbow, with a wristband and an armband. Both wristband and armband are ornamented with a single winged scroll. All four fingers curl around the thumb. A web of stone buttresses the crook of the arm between the upper and lower arm.
Remarks: Stirling says that "it is not a fragment but was made complete in this form (Stirling 1943:26). Given the existence of a matched set of almost identical arms, Monuments 15 and 16, from Tres Zapotes Stirling's surmise is most reasonable.
