[Aztlan] Vandals damage Olmec statues in La Venta Park

[Justin Kerr]

I would just like to mention that the fiber glass replicas in the original
La Venta site are in horrible condition and merely give a sense of where the
original monuments were. However the onsite museum has some interesting
stele and ceramics that were not moved to Villahermosa.
Justin Kerr

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On Behalf Of Dave Pentecost
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 1:32 PM
To: Ryan Kashanipour
Cc: aztlan at lists.famsi.org
Subject: Re: [Aztlan] Vandals damage Olmec statues in La Venta Park

The vandalism occurred in La Venta Park, Villahermosa, not the La
Venta site. The park has heads and other scultures that were moved
from the site to protect them. The site now has replicas.

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Ryan Kashanipour <rykash at hotmail.com>
wrote:
> Unless I am mistaken, but I believe that those statues are casts.  Most of
> the originals are at the Museo Nacional de Antroplogico.
>
>> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:27:34 -0500
>> From: dave.pentecost at gmail.com
>> To: aztlan at lists.famsi.org
>> Subject: [Aztlan] Vandals damage Olmec statues in La Venta Park
>>
>> Last Sunday, a 42 year old lawyer and another man, 30 years old,
>> reportedly threw grape juice, oil and some salty substances on 27 out
>> of 33 statues in the La Venta Park in Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico.
>> They claimed they were performing a prehispanic ritual. The statues
>> are now stained and discolored, and authorities are devising a
>> cleaning and restoration strategy.
>>
>> http://www.tabascohoy.com.mx/nota.php?id_nota8971
>>
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