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"title": "The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art",
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"title": "The Sport of Life and Death: The Mesoamerican Ballgame",
"description": "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).",
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{
"id": 441598,
"title": "Artlens Exhibition 2019",
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"description": "Many Mesoamerican people played ball games, using their hips rather than hands and feet to keep the heavy, solid rubber ball in play. Here a Maya ballplayer, wearing a thick protector to shield his torso from injury, dives to intercept the ball, which hovers in front of his face. The scene is situated within stepped walls, probably those of a ball court.",
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"citation": "Merrony, Mark. \u201cThe Maya : First Lords of the Jungle.\" Antiqvvs 3, n. 3 (Summer 2021): 39-44.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 43",
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"citation": "Turner, Evan H. \"Acquisitions: 1990.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 78, no. 2 (1991): 30-45.",
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"citation": "Young-S\u00e1nchez, Margaret. \"The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 79, no. 7 (1992): 234-75.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 88, p. 272, Reproduced: fig. 88, p.256",
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"citation": "Whittington, E. Michael. The Sport of Life and Death The Mesoamerican Ballgame. London: Thames & Hudson, 2001.",
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