An Olmec “Were-Jaguar” from the Yucatan Peninsula
@article{Metcalf1967AnO,
title={An Olmec “Were-Jaguar” from the Yucatan Peninsula},
author={George E. Metcalf and Kent V. Flannery},
journal={American Antiquity},
year={1967},
volume={32},
pages={109 - 111}
}Abstract A feline sculpture in serpentinite from Dsibalchen on the Yucatan Peninsula (probably in the northeast part of the state of Campeche) was found by Teobert Maler in 1887. Its half-human face shares characteristics of the Olmec "were-jaguar" sculptures of Veracruz and Tabasco.
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