Olmec Head, Number 8 | |
Medium: | Carved stone |
Height Imperial: | 7 |
Metric Unit: | m |
Imperial Unit: | ft |
Museum: | Field Museum of Natural History |
City: | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
Mapframe: | yes |
Mapframe-Zoom: | 13 |
Olmec Head, Number 8 is a 7feet tall outdoor colossal head sculpture on the east side of the north entrance to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois, that was created by Mexican sculptor Ignacio PĂ©rez Solano (b. 1931) and installed in 2000. It is one of several reproductions of San Lorenzo Colossal Head 8, which is currently located at the Museum of Anthropology in Xalapa, Veracruz.[1]