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Mask fragment
A surviving stone fragment whose polished material and carved features show highly controlled lapidary work.
- Recorded culture
- Olmec
- Place
- Mexico
- Date
- 1000–400 BCE
- Materials
- Serpentinite
What the record supports
The catalogue identifies the work as Olmec and dates it broadly to the first millennium BCE. What remains is a fragment, so the original object and use cannot be reconstructed with certainty.