id:			162161
accession number:	2001.89
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2001.89
updated:		2022-01-04 17:30:44.116000

Ballgame Thin Stone Head (Hacha), 600-900. Mexico, Gulf Coast, Classic Veracruz style (600-1100). Stone, pigment; overall: 61.6 x 20 x 8.8 cm (24 1/4 x 7 7/8 x 3 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2001.89

title:				Ballgame Thin Stone Head (Hacha)
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creation date:			600-900
creation date earliest:		600
creation date latest:		900
current location:		233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region
creditline:			Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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culture:	Mexico, Gulf Coast, Classic Veracruz style (600-1100)
technique:	stone, pigment
department:	Art of the Americas
collection:	AA - Mesoamerica
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 61.6 x 20 x 8.8 cm (24 1/4 x 7 7/8 x 3 7/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Waltham, MA: The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University;  November 7 - December 20, 1981. " Ancient American Art: An Aesthetic View."

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PROVENANCE

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A tapering headdress, its base formed by a grotesque head with upturned snout, soars above a human face in this elegant thin stone head. Such heads, known as hachas, probably were used in ballgame ceremonies, though how is unclear. Equally obscure are the heads’ identities, perhaps heroic, idealized players, ballgame patrons, or characters from the game’s lore. The large area of red pigment on one side may have been sprinkled onto the head after it was buried in an offering or a tomb.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, “Gift of Major New Stella Sculpture, Purchases of 6th-Century Jeweled Buckle, Ancient Indian Bronze Ancient Mexican Stone Head Among CMA’s Autumn Acquisitions,” December 26, 2001, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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	url:		https://archive.org/details/cmapr4424

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