id: 147480
accession number: 1973.213
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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
title: Ballgame Hip Protector (Yoke)
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creation date: 600–900
creation date earliest: 600
creation date latest: 900
current location: 233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region
creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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culture: Mexico, Gulf Coast, Classic Veracruz style (600-1100)
technique: greenstone, pigment
department: Art of the Americas
collection: AA - Mesoamerica
type: Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 41.5 x 37.5 x 11 cm (16 5/16 x 14 3/4 x 4 5/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1973
opening date: 1974-01-30T05:00:00
Year in Review: 1973. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-March 17, 1974).
title: 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)
opening date: 1988-06-18T04:00:00
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). Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden, Netherlands (organizer) (June 18-September 12, 1988).
title: Treasures of the New World
opening date: 1992-09-15T04:00:00
Treasures of the New World. Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium (organizer) (September 15-December 25, 1992).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Before Cortes, Sculpture of Middle America, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (September 30, 1970-January 3, 1971).', 'opening_date': '1970-09-30T00:00:00'}
* {'description': "Tresors Du Nouveau Monde, Musees Royaux d' Art et d' Histoire, Brussells, Belgium (September 15- December 27, 1992).", 'opening_date': '1992-09-15T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Paul Tishman, New York, NY
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John Wise, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: ?-1973
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1973-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
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page number: pp. 224-270
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/662489
Palacios, Enrique Juan. Arqueología de México: culturas arcaica y tolteca (Ilustraciones novedosas, en parte procedentes de piezas de la colección del autor). México: Imprenta Mundial, 1937.
page number: pp. 34-6, 72
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Ekholm, Gordon. " Is American Indian Culture Asiatic?" Natural History (1950).
page number: pp. 344-351, 382
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Proskouriakoff, Tatiana. " Classic Central Veracruz Sculpture." Contributions to American Archaeology and History. (Washington, D.C. 1954).
page number: pp. 11, 63-90
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Covarrubias, Miguel. Indian Art of Mexico and Central America. New York: Knopf, 1957.
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Willey, Gordon R. An Introduction to American Archaeology. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1966.
page number: p. 143
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Easby, Elizabeth Kennedy, and John F. Scott. Before Cortés, Sculpture of Middle America; A Centennial Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from September 30, 1970 Through January 3, 1971. [New York]: Metropolitan Museum of Art; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1970.
page number: no. 146
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Hawley, Henry. "Classic Veracruz Sculptures." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 10 (1974).
page number: pp. 321-330, cover
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152555
"The Year in Review for 1973." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 2 (1974).
page number: p. 72
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152513
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 394
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n414
Kubler, George. Art and Architecture of Ancient America. Penguin, 1962.
page number: pl. 40b
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Leyenaar, Ted J. J., and Lee Allen Parsons. 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. Leiden, The Netherlands: Spruyt, Van Mantgem & De Does, 1988.
page number: p. 171, fig. 54
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Cleveland Museum of Art. Masterpieces from East and West. New York, NY: Rizzoli International, 1992.
page number: p. 182
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Deletaille, Emile, and Lin Deletaille. Trésors du nouveau monde. Bruxelles: Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire, 1992.
page number: fig. 98
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Sabau García, María Luisa. México en el mundo de las colecciones de arte. México: D.R. Primera, 1994.
page number: pp. 183-241
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García Díaz, Bernardo, Lourdes Alonso, and Adalberto Ríos Szalay. The State of Veracruz, Mexico. Mexican Art Abroad, México: Grupo Azabache, 1994.
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May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.
page number: no. 107, pp. 96-97, 220
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Bergh, Susan, "Art from the Sacred Ballgame", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 42 no. 03, March 2002
page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p.8-9
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2002-03/page/n7
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