Vintage Mayan Chacmool Stone Carved Statue Pre-Columbian Style Chac Mool Replica

Vintage Mayan Chacmool Stone Carved Statue Pre-Columbian Style Chac Mool Replica. 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, tobacco, turkeys, feathers, and incense. In Aztec examples, the receptacle is a cuauhxicalli (a stone bowl to receive sacrificed human hearts). Chacmools were often associated with sacrificial stones or thrones. The chacmool form of sculpture first appeared around the 9th century AD in the Valley of Mexico & northern Yucatán Peninsula. The statue is 7.25" wide, 6" tall and 4.25". It was carved and polished out of a whole piece of stone. The weight is 5 Lb 14 Oz.

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