Maya eccentric
The eccentric are one of the most original forms of Maya art . They are objects out of hard stone, Silex or Obsidienne. Contrary to many other objects cut in the same rocks, they seem deprived of practical use. Their function was probably ritual. The forms are multiple: anthropomorphic, zoomorphes or geometrical. The human forms or animal are represented in silhouette. The formed eccentrics of several silhouettes of the god K' awiil are among most spectacular. The size of certain eccentrics, which end in a narrow prolongation, lets suppose that they could be fixed on a support, a pole of wood for example and would have been used as sceptres The complexity of their manufacture is such as the modern tailors appeared unable to reproduce them with the same smoothness as the Maya craftsmen. The archeologists found them in masks, generally with the foot of steles or staircases or in tombs, where they were deposited in offering at the time traditional.
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