The delicate incising on this shell merits close attention: look especially for a thin cigar, with puffs of smoke, and patterning of textiles (the chest design could also be body paint). This light incision contrasts with the more deeply carved line that defines the figure, probably a noble, who wears a deer-head headdress and gestures toward a serpent emerging from what may be a conch shell. Very few of the hieroglyphs have been deciphered.
