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This is a reconstructed body of Jaguar Paw , the jade jewellery and ornaments and some of the adorning fabric is original found at Calakmul, Structure 11, Campeche State, Mexico At the end of the Late Classic period, an elite burial (Tomb 4) was placed under the floor of one of the rooms. The burial, an adult male, included a bone needle, a bone imitation of a stingray spine and two dishes, a tecomate and a small bowl. The tomb measures 2.5 meters long, .9 meters wide and 1.2 meters high. The skeleton was covered with a textile shroud or cloth treated with a resin and perhaps latex, and then with an animal skin. Eight sets of animal paws (perhaps feline), bone, jadeite and shell beads; jadeite mosaics and earplugs were included A jadeite mosaic mask was discovered on the skeleton's chest. The mask was made of pieces of jadeite, and then covered with mortar and painted in yellow, green and blue-green. A polychrome plate names Yukum Yich'ak K'ak (Jaguar Paw) as its owner: and some scholars believe this is the burial of the most famous ruler at Calakmul. Structure II was first built during the Late Preclassic (300 BC-AD 250) period, but the most substantial alterations were during the late Classic, when a nine-room palace with a painted stucco roof comb was built atop the pyramid. The palace has a vaulted roof and measures 19.4 meters by 12 meters; thirty-five hearths heated this structure. The front rooms were used for food preparation, while the interior rooms for sleeping and/or ceremonial purposes. One of the major results of the project has been the discovery of a royal Late Classic tomb. Both archaeological and glyphic evidence suggest that this may be the final resting place of one of Calakmul's greatest rulers, named Yukom Yich'ak K'ak' in the heiro- glyphic texts and commonly known as Jaguar Paw in epigraphic literature I . The polity ruled by Jaguar Paw was one of the most important in the history of the Maya area. As noted above, Martin and Grube (1995:4