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\nA seven-foot-high sculpture of a figure with an axe inspired #MetKids animators. The sculpture shows Chahk, a Maya deity or god who is important for its ability to control rain and lightning. This sculpture is over 1,000 years old and...\nA seven-foot-high sculpture of a figure with an axe inspired #MetKids animators. The sculpture shows Chahk, a Maya deity or god who is important for its ability to control rain and lightning. This sculpture is over 1,000 years old and may have been part of a palace or temple built by Maya people. Today, there are around seven million people who speak Mayan languages. Watch the lightning flash in this stop-motion animation made by kids at the 2017 Museum Mile Festival at The Met. #MetKids is a digital feature made for, with and by kids! About #MetKids Production Credits Special thanks to all of our #MetKids animators. Produced in collaboration with The Good School. Inspired by: Monumental figure Special thanks to the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. Museum Mile Festival at The Met is made possible in part by the Great Circle Foundation and the Tiger Baron Foundation. Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies. © 2017 The Metropolitan Museum of Art metmuseum.org/metkids\n
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6th - 11th
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2019
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