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Kneeling Figure

c. 1200–600 BCE

Mexico, Guerrero, Olmec

Medium
stone
Measurements
Overall: 26.3 x 20 x 21.3 cm (10 3/8 x 7 7/8 x 8 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
The Norweb Collection 1951.179
Public Domain
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Location
233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region
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An observant traveler discovered the left knee and hand fragment, orginally missing and now reunited.

Description

Outside of the Maya, Olmec sculptures of humans have a naturalism unknown in other Mesoamerican artistic traditions. On this finely carved figure, the musculature of the arms, torso, and legs is carefully depicted, and even the fingernails and toenails and are shown.
A weathered gray stone sculpture depicts a kneeling figure with its head and upper torso missing from a sharp diagonal break. The figure rests on its knees, hands placed flat against its thighs with fingers rendered as vertical grooves. A small indentation marks the center of the rounded torso. The rough-textured sculpture shows thick arms and a sturdy lower body, with the upper right chest sheared away.

Kneeling Figure

c. 1200–600 BCE

Mexico, Guerrero, Olmec

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