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When visiting the museum, I chose to look at the Kunz Axe. This is one of the first important Olmec objects to come to modern attention. ... The Kunz Axe is a jadeite effigy ‘were-jaguar’ which grasps a miniature axe in its hands. ... It was in fact of the Olmec style. ...
The axe definitely exhibits many qualities of the Olmec style. ...
After reading the museum’s information on this piece, I discovered that for over two millennia, the large and precious Kunz Axe was presumably kept as a treasure or heirloom. ... , that objects such as the Kunz Axe were at last understood by scholars to embody the principles of the first great art style of Mesoamerica.
Early students of the Olmec style noticed a repeated pattern of imagery on the carved stone objects. ... Such examples, would be the caiman, harpy eagle, toad, jaguar, and snake which all appear in the Olmec supernatural repertory.
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