This replicated Mayan incense burner features a supernatural being, perhaps a sacred ancestor, emerging from a large shell that symbolizes the entrance into the watery underworld. The figure holds the edge of the shell with his left hand to aid his appearance into the human kingdom. He wears a three-strand necklace of round beads. A smaller version of the shell from which he rises dangles on his chest. Double strands of small beads decorate each of his wrist. The overall composition is of an adorned head, functioning as an embodied representation of the earth. The base holds the burning coals and incense, the smoke rising into the lid and issuing from large holes at either end of the shell.