An Olmec stone hunchback figure, Middle Preclassic, ca. 900-600 B.C.

with high hump and head with compelling expression deeply set on the chest, thin right arm tightly bent against the body, the right leg missing and missing left arm reworked to a smoothed finish in ancient times; in speckled light green serpentine. 

David Bramhall, 1976

As shown, missing right leg and left arm. otherwise fine. Wonderful carving quality.
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For very similar hunchback figures see Coe (1995:60, fig. 19; Benson and de la Fuente (1996:122, fig. 1); and Brooklyn, 1966, fig. 8 for the Leff figure.