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Pottery incense burner from a shrine at Mayapan depicting the rain god Chac. The Maya god carries a small bowl in one hand and a ball of flaming incense in the other. Ht 54.6 cm (21.5 in).
the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.


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