Ballgame Hip Protector (Yoke)
600–900
Maker Unknown
Art of the Americas
Ballgame Hip Protector (Yoke), 600–900. Mexico, Gulf Coast, Classic Veracruz style (600-1100). Greenstone, pigment; overall: 41.5 x 37.5 x 11 cm (16 5/16 x 14 3/4 x 4 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1973.213 The ballgame was a team sport played on specially constructed rectangular courts and involved striking a large solid rubber ball without using your hands.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Formatted Medium
- greenstone, pigment
- Medium
- greenstone, pigment
- Dimensions
- Overall: 41.5 x 37.5 x 11 cm (16 5/16 x 14 3/4 x 4 5/16 in.)
- Departments
- Art of the Americas
- Accession Number
- 1973.213
- Credit Line
- Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1973, Ulama : het balspel bij de Maya's en Azteken, 2000 v. Chr.--2000 n. Chr.: van mensenoffer tot sport (The ballgame of the Mayas and Aztecs, 2000 BC--AD 2000: from human sacrifice to sport), Treasures of the New World, <em>Before Cortes, Sculpture of Middle America</em>, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (September 30, 1970-January 3, 1971)., <em>Tresors Du Nouveau Monde</em>, Musees Royaux d' Art et d' Histoire, Brussells, Belgium (September 15- December 27, 1992).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region
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