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chac mool
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
Jaina Island
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Maya art
Pre-Columbian art
Maya blue
azure blue pigment
Maya stelae
monuments that were fashioned by the Maya civilization
Maya textiles
clothing of the Maya peoples
Maya ceramics
ancient art pieces
Maya music
music of the ancient Mayan courts
Eccentric flint
mayan archaeological artifact
Maya dance
ceremonial dance in pre-Columbian Maya civilization