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A chacmool is a form of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican sculpture depicting a reclining figure with its head facing 90 degrees from the front, supporting itself on its elbows and supporting a bowl or a disk upon its stomach. Wikipedia
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The figure is adorned with a headdress, earflares, bracelets, and anklets, all likely depicted as if they were made of jade. The bowl served as a receptacle for ...
A chacmool is a form of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican sculpture depicting a reclining figure with its head facing 90 degrees from the front, supporting itself ...
Jan 26, 2019 · A Chac Mool is a very specific type of Mesoamerican statue associated with ancient cultures such as the Aztecs and Maya.
He translated "Chaacmol" from Yucatecan Maya as the "paw swift like thunder" (Le Plongeon 1896:157). The name, he said, was given by the ancient Maya to a ...
This Chacmool depicts an elite individual with large jade ear disks (in Maya blue), a red headband, and prominent tubular nose bead (indicating noble status ...
Sculpture determined to be a copy of a work from Chichen Itza, Yucatan Peninsula.
…plaster cast of a limestone Chac Mool—a Mayan representation of the rain spirit, depicted as a male reclining figure with its knees drawn up together, ...
Sep 18, 2021 · Mayan Chac Mool, 92-50-20/C1099 This plaster cast is a model of a Chac Mool statue originally found at the Post-Classic Maya site of Chichen
Oct 16, 2023 · Chacmools have been reported as far south as the Maya city of Quiriguá, near the Guatemalan border with Honduras. The Quiriguá chacmool most ...
Chac-Mool Maya. The oldest Mayan sculpture, acquired by the museum in the 19th century, is the Chac-Mool, from the platform of the Eagles and the Jaguars at ...