Guatemalan Maximón Effigy, 20th Century

Guatemalan wood carved figure of Maximón (a.k.a. San Simon), 20th century, with jointed arms and legs, and an original burned cigar offering still in his mouth. Maximón is a bad boy folk saint of the region, usually wearing dapper garb, who is typically offered gifts of tobacco and alcohol alongside revelry from supplicants looking for both conventional help (healing, the return of love, etc.) and less conventional (revenge, money, resolution of gossip against you). Here he appears skeletal, though seemingly in a thing business shirt and tie and sandals. He is outfitted with a hole in the base of his torso suitable for inserting a post for a vertical stand.

For more on Maximón: https://www.vice.com/en/article/worshipping-at-the-altar-of-maximn-the-drunken-devilish-mayan-god-beloved-in-guatemala/

43.75"l x 14"w.