Maya art

architecture style

thumb|upright=1.4|Maya chacmool from Chichen Itza, excavated by Le Plongeon in 1875, now displayed at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City A chacmool (also spelled chac-mool or Chac Mool) 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. These figures possibly symbolised slain warriors carrying offerings to the gods; the bowl upon the chest was used to hold sacrificial offerings, including pulque, tamales, tortillas, tobacc

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Pre-Columbian art

azure blue pigment

monuments that were fashioned by the Maya civilization

clothing of the Maya peoples

ancient art pieces

music of the ancient Mayan courts

mayan archaeological artifact

ceremonial dance in pre-Columbian Maya civilization