This original contemporary wood carving of Kukulkan was made by internationally recognized Mayan artist Jesus Marcos Delgado Ku from the Yucatán Peninsula. It is signed and labeled on the back of the carving by the artist.
Jesus Marcos Delgado Ku's work was displayed in the Crafting Maya Identity exhibit at the Jack Olson Gallery Museum located at Northern Illinois University in September of 2009. Pictures of the museum exhibit can be viewed at the following link. This piece is represented in the fifth photo: http://jackolsongallery.blogspot.com/2009/09/
In addition, the Crafting Maya Identity exhibit was displayed at the Michael and Noemi Neidorff Art Gallery at Trinity University in October and November of 2010 and later at a gallery exhibit in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico: http://tprarts.blogspot.com/2010/10/trinitys-crafting-maya-identity.html
The Jack Olson Gallery Museum described the exhibit as: "An exhibition of carvings by the Maya artisans Miguel Uc Delgado, Jesus Marcos Delgado Ku, Angel Ruiz Novelo, and Wilbert Vasquez, guest curated by Mary-Katherine Scott and Jeff Kowalski. Although the technically refined and visually complex carvings of the Puuk region of Yucatan are often described as handicraft or "tourist art", it no longer seems appropriate to tag them pejorative connotations associated with such terms. Rather, they provide important information regarding how a relatively recent artistic "tradition" emerged in and responded to a particular context, and communicates significant messages about the changing nature of Maya cultural identity, and how such identity is constructed, represented, and understood by both the artisans themselves and tourist visitors in the context of cross-cultural contact and global interconnections."
A catalog from the museum exhibition can be found at: http://www.osea-cite.org/class/quetzil/Quetzil2009_Aesthetics_Ambivalence_Maya_Modernity_Maya_Art.pdf
Dimensions: Length 12 inches, Width 5 and 1/2 inches, Height 1 and 1/4 inches