# The Tuxtla Statuette

> Photographs and W. H. Holmes's drawings of the statuette on Wikimedia Commons are in this record's photos. An earlier copy here named a Commons file that…

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**ART** 0CYBCATW2CT1·Artifact · object

# The Tuxtla Statuette

PhotographCC0Possible Long Count date of AD 162

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[![The Tuxtla Statuette: photograph](https://mysteriesdept.com/media/folio/cascajal-block-a-tuxtla-m1)](https://mysteriesdept.com/media/folio/cascajal-block-a-tuxtla-m1?w=2000)

The Tuxtla Statuette: photograph

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Photographs and W. H. Holmes's drawings of the statuette on Wikimedia Commons are in this record's photos. An earlier copy here named a Commons file that does not exist and was removed.

Gary Todd. CC0

## Copies 4

**Photo** W. H. Holmes · commons.wikimedia.org · public-domain1 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tuxtla_Statuette_-_W._H._Holmes_-_photo_left.jpg)

**Photograph** Gary Todd · commons.wikimedia.org · CC01 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Olmec_Statue_from_Tuxtla_Showing_Earliest_Mesoamerican_Writing,_c._1500-1200_BC_-_left_side.jpg)

**Photograph** Gary Todd · commons.wikimedia.org · CC01 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Olmec_Statue_from_Tuxtla_Showing_Earliest_Mesoamerican_Writing,_c._1500-1200_BC_-_right_side.jpg)

**Photograph** W. H. Holmes · commons.wikimedia.org · Public domain1 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tuxtla_Statuette_-_W._H._Holmes_-_drawing_front.png)

## Where it is kept

[National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0CYBBRGY06DP/national-museum-of-natural-history-smithsonian-institution) · Museum

## Sources 1

- [Tuxtla Statuette](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CYBBP2T1QP1/tuxtla-statuette)_SRC_

## Cite it

```
Mysteries Department. (2026). The Tuxtla Statuette [Artifact ART0CYBCATW2CT1]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0CYBCATW2CT1
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Key

**ART** 0CYBCATW2CT1

Kind

Object

Held by

Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Dated

possible Long Count date of AD 162

Licence

CC0

Place

[National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0CYBBRGY06DP/national-museum-of-natural-history-smithsonian-institution)

Part of

[Cascajal block and Isthmian writing](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cascajal-block)

The record

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