Eagle Transformation Figure, 10th–6th century B.C., Mexico, Mesoamerica, Olmec, Albitite, cinnabar, H. 4 1/2 x W. 1 5/8 in. (11.4 x 4.2 cm), Stone-Sculpture, This small, carved greenstone sculpture possesses both human and animal attributes, suggesting that it is a transformation figure. While maintaining an overall semblance of human anatomy, the figure's greatly enlarged head combines human and avian features, with bulging birdlike eyes separated by a plume extending up past the forehead, human ears, a human nose topping a hooked beak, and a small beard on the chin
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Eagle Transformation Figure, 10th–6th century B.C, Mexico, Mesoamerica, Olmec, Albitite, cinnabar, H, 4 1/2, x, W, 1 5/8, 11.4 x 4.2 cm, Stone-Sculpture, small, carved greenstone, sculpture, possesses, human, animal attributes, suggesting, transformation figure, maintaining, overall semblance, human anatomy, figure, greatly enlarged, head, combines, avian features, bulging birdlike, eyes, separated, plume extending, up, past, forehead, ears, nose, topping, hooked beak, small beard, chin
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