Perhaps the most dramatic assemblage of Olmec small stone figures yet discovered.
Created by the Olmec during the Middle Formative (1500–600 BCE) period,
which is considered the peak of their cultural development, primarily centered
around the site of La Venta in modern-day Tabasco, Mexico.

21 sculptures (15 figures and 6 celts) are made of greenstone. Thirteen of the figures
are composed of greenish serpentine, while two figures and all six of the celts are jade.
The one figure who is facing all the others is made from a tan granite which has eroded.

As there is one female figure (large elongated flattened face of all cream jade which is
considered as the most stylized of all the figures just to the left of the one eroded
granite figure), a likely purpose of the assemblage is that of memorializing a
wedding of an important couple.

"Taken all together, the figures and celts of Offering #4 are similar in style,
but their individualized features reveal that no single artist or workshop produced
all of the sculptures; in other words, the Olmec did not create these sculptures
as one group, expressly for this offering, but assembled this scene by repurposing
and even recycling other small stone sculptures."