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A stylized, pre-Columbian Mesoamerican stone sculpture depicting a reclining male figure with the head raised and turned to one side, holding a small tray over the stomach.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: archaeology, history, human-sciences, sciences
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History
Borrowed from Yucatec Maya chak moʼol (“jaguar”, literally “red paw”). The name was first given by Augustus Le Plongeon to a statue of this type discovered at Chichén Itzá in 1875.
