Standing figure of a Transformed shamanic figure with large oval shaped head and almond eyes, flattened nose and full lips. The head sits solidly on the sloping shoulders, which emphasizes the exaggerated size of the head. The shape of the head evinces the cranial deformation practiced by elites. The shoulders are rounded, the arms hang at the figure's side and the legs are spread apart. This small figure has exquisitely carved details: fine incisions mark the joints of the arms and legs, fingers, breasts, loincloth, buttocks, and toes. Conically drilled piercings at earlobes. In excellent condition. A dimple on the crown of the head with rough edges is original to the piece. Olmec lapidaries frequently left a small area on top of the head of stone human figures unfinished. These areas are usually dimple shaped and often reveal an unpolished section of the original stone used to carve the sculpture.

Figurative works in jade were being made by 1000 B.C. by the Olmec peoples of the Mexican Gulf Coast. Professionally excavated in important burials and caches, objects of diverse sorts came to light in the 1940s and 1950s at the site of La Venta in the present-day Mexican state of Tabasco. They included human figures, human-animal composite depictions (thought to be deity images), celts (axes) both plain and incised, and personal ornaments such as earflares and beads. Generally small in scale, exhibiting an extraordinary command of the extremely difficult-to-carve stone medium, Olmec jade objects were of preference translucent blue green in color and were unsurpassed in the ancient Americas for compact, symmetrically balanced, three-dimensional form, and elegance of surface detail. Complex imagery characterizes Olmec sculpture in jade, and the inclusion of feline and avian elements particularly add to the symbolic power of the depictions.

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