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Location: Said to be from ruins on the slope of Cerro el Vigia, moved first to Santiago Tuxtla and later to San Andres Tuxtla (Friedlaender 1923:165).
Associations: Totogal Monuments 2, 3, 4.
Condition: Well preserved.
Photographs: Present report, Plate 59; Seler-Sachs 1922: Plate V [I] 2, Bloom and la Farge 1926: Figure 15.
Drawings: None.
Carved Areas: Sculpture in the round.
Material: According to Friedlaender "the famous old sculptures were made from [Cerro el Vigia's] Olivine lava" (Friedlaender 1923:165, Author's trans.).
Dimensions: Height 50 cm, Width 80 cm, Depth 103 cm.
Description: Monument 1 is a boulder sculpture with incised and flat relief features. The sculpture depicts a toad with supraorbital plates and masses of square teeth incised in a band to suggest a slightly open mouth. The flexed limbs are crudely rendered in flat relief with digits indicated by incision.
Remarks: Friedlaender's map shows a site on the southern slopes of Cerro el Vigia which corresponds to the location of Totogal and he implies that Monuments 1-4 came from the site. The subject matter of Monument 1, a toad, is popular throughout southern Mesoamerica, though most examples are found in the Pacific Piedmont and Highlands of Guatemala.
