id: 147519 accession number: 1973.3 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1973.3 updated: 2025-07-11 17:03:26.368000 Ballgame Palma, c. 900–1100. Mexico, Gulf Coast, Classic Veracruz style (600-1100). Stone; overall: 49.2 x 23.5 x 11.4 cm (19 3/8 x 9 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1973.3 title: Ballgame Palma title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 900–1100 creation date earliest: 900 creation date latest: 1100 current location: 233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Mexico, Gulf Coast, Classic Veracruz style (600-1100) technique: stone department: Art of the Americas collection: AA - Mesoamerica type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 49.2 x 23.5 x 11.4 cm (19 3/8 x 9 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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). title: The Sport of Life and Death: The Mesoamerican Ballgame opening date: 2001-09-24T00:00:00 The Sport of Life and Death: The Mesoamerican Ballgame. Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC (September 24-December 30, 2001); New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA (February 16-April 28, 2002); Newark Museum, Newark, NJ (October 1-December 29, 2002). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Update on pre-acquisition history pending. date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1973- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Spinden, Ellen S. " The Place of Tajin in Totonac Archaeology." American Anthropologist. vol, 35, no. 2 (1933). page number: pp. 224-270 url: Palacios, Enrique Juan. Arqueología de Mexico: culturas araica y tolteca (ilustraciones novadosas en parte precedentes de piezas de la colección del autor). Mexico: Imprenta Mundial, 1937. page number: pp. 34-36, 72 url: Ekholm, Gordon. " Is American Indian Culture Asiatic?" Natural History (1950). page number: pp. 344-51, 382 url: Proskouriakoff, Tatiana. " Classic Central Veracruz Sculpture." Contributions to American Archaeology and History. 11 (1954). page number: pp. 63-90 url: Covarrubias, Miguel. Indian Art of Mexico and Central America. New York: Knopf, 1957. page number: pl. XZII url: Willey, Gordon R. An Introduction to American Archaeology... 2, 2. New Jersey: Prencice-Hall, 1966. page number: p. 143 url: " Recent Accessions of American and Canadian Museums." The Art Quarterly Vol. XXXVI, no. 4 (Winter, 1973). page number: p. 427 & 437 url: "The Year in Review for 1973." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 2 (1974). page number: pp. 73 & 80, no. 28 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152513 Hawley, Henry. "Classic Veracruz Sculptures." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 10 (1974). page number: pp. 321-330 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152555 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. The Art and Architecture of Ancient America: The Mexican, Maya, and Andean Peoples. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1984. page number: pl. 40b url: 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 = Ulama, the Ballgame of the Mayas and Aztecs, 2000 BC-AD 2000 : from Human Sacrifice to Sport. Leiden: SMD Informatief, 1988. page number: p. 61 & 175, pl. 2, fig. 71 url: Deletaille, Emile, and Lin Deletaille. Trésors du nouveau monde. Bruxelles: Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire, 1992. page number: fig. 99 a, b url: Solis, Felipe. " La Costa del Golfo: El Arte del Centro de Veracruz y del Mundo Huasteco." Mexico en el Mundo de las Colecciones de Arte. Mesoamerica 1 (1994.) page number: pp. 196-7 url: Whittington, E. Michael. The Sport of Life and Death: The Mesoamerican Ballgame. London: Thames & Hudson, 2001. page number: p. 259, no. 130 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, David Franklin, and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012. page number: pp. 78-9 url: Mexican Art Abroad Series. (Mexico: Grupo Azabache, 1994) page number: url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.3/1973.3_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.3/1973.3_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.3/1973.3_full.tif