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Updated: May 5, 2025
Canchi means "serpent's mouth," and was the name of the royal family that ruled over the Mayas when their civilization was at its height. Within the serpent's jaws is the greatest gem of American sculpture yet discovered.
It is a head and throat, sculptured in the round, of Cay Canchi, the high priest and elder brother of the warrior Chaacmol, whose statue we exhumed from 8 meters below the soil in Chichen Itza, during the year 1876; which statue was afterward robbed from us by the Mexican government, and is now in the museum at Mexico city.
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