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A New-Found Votive Ax from Mexico*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Neil M. Judd
Neil M. Judd*
Affiliation:
United States National Museum, Washington, D.C.
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In December, 1948, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., discontinued its collection of curios and presented the lot to the United States National Museum. Among other treasures was a votive ax depicting the “tiger” or “jaguar” god of tropical America in the style peculiar to the Olmec, or La Venta, culture. There are no accompanying data; even the name of the donor has been lost. In want of data and in other respects the ax is reminiscent of the half dozen like specimens preserved in public museums.

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American Antiquity , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , October 1951 , pp. 139 - 141
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1951

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Published by permission of the Secretary, Smithsonian Institution.

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* Published by permission of the Secretary, Smithsonian Institution.