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...exhibition at the American Museum. Found 22 years ago by a U. S. engineer, now dead, during excavation work on a Mexican dam. it was bought and presented to the Museum by Mrs. Payne Whitney, Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson and John Hay ("Jock") Whitney. Similar in workmanship to the axehead, it is called a Tenth Century tiger, representing the god Tezcatlipoca of the little-known Olmec people who once lived in the states of Vera Cruz, Oaxaca and Tabasco and are sometimes cited as the first users of rubber. The tiger looks more like a pale green toad with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Toad-Tiger | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

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