photo source: Sanxingdui Museum

photo source: Ancient Sichuan: Treasures, p. 121

Butterfly(?) with Human Head

Sanxingdui Museum

This small (12cm, 4.7in) chimera once stood on the flower of a tree. The double-scroll piece on the right is a wing, and conjecturally restoring a similar missing piece on the left, we get something that looks like a butterfly.