id: 147519
accession number: 1973.3
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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
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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
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culture: Mexico, Gulf Coast, Classic Veracruz style (600-1100)
technique: stone
department: Art of the Americas
collection: AA - Mesoamerica
type: Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 49.2 x 23.5 x 11.4 cm (19 3/8 x 9 1/4 x 4 1/2 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).
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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Update on pre-acquisition history pending.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1973-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Spinden, Ellen S. " The Place of Tajin in Totonac Archaeology." American Anthropologist. vol, 35, no. 2 (1933).
page number: pp. 224-270
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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
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Ekholm, Gordon. " Is American Indian Culture Asiatic?" Natural History (1950).
page number: pp. 344-51, 382
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Proskouriakoff, Tatiana. " Classic Central Veracruz Sculpture." Contributions to American Archaeology and History. 11 (1954).
page number: pp. 63-90
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Covarrubias, Miguel. Indian Art of Mexico and Central America. New York: Knopf, 1957.
page number: pl. XZII
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Willey, Gordon R. An Introduction to American Archaeology... 2, 2. New Jersey: Prencice-Hall, 1966.
page number: p. 143
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" Recent Accessions of American and Canadian Museums." The Art Quarterly Vol. XXXVI, no. 4 (Winter, 1973).
page number: p. 427 & 437
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"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
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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 = 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
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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. 99 a, b
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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
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Whittington, E. Michael. The Sport of Life and Death: The Mesoamerican Ballgame. London: Thames & Hudson, 2001.
page number: p. 259, no. 130
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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
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Mexican Art Abroad Series. (Mexico: Grupo Azabache, 1994)
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