A funerary mask, from the Mayan city of Calakmul. It is a mosaic of jade, obsidian, and shell. It was made between 660 and 750 CE, and buried with an unidentified ruler of the Kaan Dynasty of Calakmul.
The mask is complex and full of symbolism. Among other symbols, the ruler’s ears are shaped like corn flowers, sacred in Mayan mythology as the first man was crafted from corn. And the white whisps by the nose and mouth likely represent the ruler’s last dying breaths: his transition from the mortal world to the afterworld.
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