Chac Mool - Cozumel, Mexico - Figurative Public Sculpture on Waymarking.com

Chac Mool is the fanciful name given to a pre-Columbian statues found in the Central American regions including the Yucatan. All examples feature a reclining man with the head turned 90 degrees to the body.

The first such statue discovered near here was found near Chitzen Itza in 1875.

From wikipedia:

The ancient name for these type of sculptures is unknown. The term chacmool is derived from the name “Chaacmol,” which Augustus Le Plongeon in 1875 gave to a sculpture that he and his wife Alice Dixon Le Plongeon excavated within the Temple of the Eagles and Jaguars at Chichén Itzá in 1875; he translated Chaacmol from Yucatecan Mayan as the “paw swift like thunder.”[5] Le Plongeon believed the statue, which he had found buried beneath the Platform of the Eagles and the Jaguars, depicted a former ruler of Chichen Itza. Le Plongeon's sponsor, Stephen Salisbury of Worcester, Massachusetts, published Le Plongeon's find, but revised the spelling to "Chac-Mool."[6]"

The history of the example here, recently painted, is unknown.

Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Chac-Mool Figure Type: Human Artist Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Unknown Date created or placed or use 'Unknown' if not known: Unknown Materials used: Stone. Location: Near Cozumel Cruise port.

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