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Filename: 
MawM0170-000.jp2
Identifying Number: 
MawM0170
Title: 
Huastec ball player.
Subject: 
Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Pánuco River
Subject: 
Huastec sculpture--Mexico--Pánuco River
Subject: 
Huastec art--Mexico--Pánuco River
Subject: 
Indigenous peoples--Antiquities
Description: 
A male standing figure wears a yoke around his waist and a leather wrap around his left hand. This ball player wears a rounded headdress, ear spools, a necklace, a knee pad, and sandals. A black petroleum material, chapopote, has been painted on his headdress, his hips, and groin.
Materials: 
Ceramic: buff-brown terracotta, chapopote.
Publisher: 
California State University, Los Angeles
Date: 
between 250 and 600
Type: 
Artifact
Object Type: 
Figure
Dimensions: 
10 1/4 in high x 3 7/16 in wide x 1 7/8 in depth
Collection: 
MAW Collection
Location: 
Panuco, Mexico
Rights: 
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Culture: 
Huastec
Period: 
Early Classic to Early Post Classic