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Maya baluster form vase : three pictoral panels : cormorant, elite Maya male, quetzalcoatl with ancestor.
Description
This transitional ceramic depicts Maya iconography on a foreign vessel. The baluster form with a pedestal foot is a Costa Rican import. The polychrome decorations of a cormorant with jaguar spots, a seated maya, and a feathered serpent with an ancestor emerging from the serpent's mouth are Maya.
Subject
[Vases, Ancient--El Salvador, Pottery--El Salvador, Ceramic tableware--El Salvador, Maya art--El Salvador, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Maya baluster form vase : three pictoral panels : cormorant, elite Maya male, quetzalcoatl with ancestor.
Description
This transitional ceramic depicts Maya iconography on a foreign vessel. The baluster form with a pedestal foot is a Costa Rican import. The polychrome decorations of a cormorant with jaguar spots, a seated maya, and a feathered serpent with an ancestor emerging from the serpent's mouth are Maya.
Subject
[Vases, Ancient--El Salvador, Pottery--El Salvador, Ceramic tableware--El Salvador, Maya art--El Salvador, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Maya baluster form vase : three pictoral panels : cormorant, elite Maya male, quetzalcoatl with ancestor.
Description
This transitional ceramic depicts Maya iconography on a foreign vessel. The baluster form with a pedestal foot is a Costa Rican import. The polychrome decorations of a cormorant with jaguar spots, a seated maya, and a feathered serpent with an ancestor emerging from the serpent's mouth are Maya.
Subject
[Vases, Ancient--El Salvador, Pottery--El Salvador, Ceramic tableware--El Salvador, Maya art--El Salvador, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Maya baluster form vase : three pictoral panels : cormorant, elite Maya male, quetzalcoatl with ancestor.
Description
This transitional ceramic depicts Maya iconography on a foreign vessel. The baluster form with a pedestal foot is a Costa Rican import. The polychrome decorations of a cormorant with jaguar spots, a seated maya, and a feathered serpent with an ancestor emerging from the serpent's mouth are Maya.
Subject
[Vases, Ancient--El Salvador, Pottery--El Salvador, Ceramic tableware--El Salvador, Maya art--El Salvador, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Maya baluster form vase : three pictoral panels : cormorant, elite Maya male, quetzalcoatl with ancestor.
Description
This transitional ceramic depicts Maya iconography on a foreign vessel. The baluster form with a pedestal foot is a Costa Rican import. The polychrome decorations of a cormorant with jaguar spots, a seated maya, and a feathered serpent with an ancestor emerging from the serpent's mouth are Maya.
Subject
[Vases, Ancient--El Salvador, Pottery--El Salvador, Ceramic tableware--El Salvador, Maya art--El Salvador, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Maya baluster form vase : three pictoral panels : cormorant, elite Maya male, quetzalcoatl with ancestor.
Description
This transitional ceramic depicts Maya iconography on a foreign vessel. The baluster form with a pedestal foot is a Costa Rican import. The polychrome decorations of a cormorant with jaguar spots, a seated maya, and a feathered serpent with an ancestor emerging from the serpent's mouth are Maya.
Subject
[Vases, Ancient--El Salvador, Pottery--El Salvador, Ceramic tableware--El Salvador, Maya art--El Salvador, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 800
Title
Maya orangeware carved vase.
Description
During the late Classic period, Nicaraguan, Costa Rican, and Panamanian ceramic styles influenced Mesoamerica. The baluster vase with a pedestal foot was a Costa Rican import. The carved abstract design of a feathered serpent, Quetzalcoatl, is pure Mesoamerican.
Subject
[Vases--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza, Pottery--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza, Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza, Maya art--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 800 and 1000
Title
Maya orangeware carved vase.
Description
During the late Classic period, Nicaraguan, Costa Rican, and Panamanian ceramic styles influenced Mesoamerica. The baluster vase with a pedestal foot was a Costa Rican import. The carved abstract design of a feathered serpent, Quetzalcoatl, is pure Mesoamerican.
Subject
[Vases--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza, Pottery--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza, Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza, Maya art--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 800 and 1000
Title
Maya orangeware carved vase.
Description
During the late Classic period, Nicaraguan, Costa Rican, and Panamanian ceramic styles influenced Mesoamerica. The baluster vase with a pedestal foot was a Costa Rican import. The carved abstract design of a feathered serpent, Quetzalcoatl, is pure Mesoamerican.
Subject
[Vases--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza, Pottery--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza, Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza, Maya art--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 800 and 1000
Title
Maya orangeware carved vase.
Description
During the late Classic period, Nicaraguan, Costa Rican, and Panamanian ceramic styles influenced Mesoamerica. The baluster vase with a pedestal foot was a Costa Rican import. The carved abstract design of a feathered serpent, Quetzalcoatl, is pure Mesoamerican.
Subject
[Vases--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza, Pottery--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza, Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza, Maya art--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 800 and 1000
Title
Maya orangeware carved vase.
Description
During the late Classic period, Nicaraguan, Costa Rican, and Panamanian ceramic styles influenced Mesoamerica. The baluster vase with a pedestal foot was a Costa Rican import. The carved abstract design of a feathered serpent, Quetzalcoatl, is pure Mesoamerican.
Subject
[Vases--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza, Pottery--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza, Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza, Maya art--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 800 and 1000
Title
Maya orangeware carved vase.
Description
During the late Classic period, Nicaraguan, Costa Rican, and Panamanian ceramic styles influenced Mesoamerica. The baluster vase with a pedestal foot was a Costa Rican import. The carved abstract design of a feathered serpent, Quetzalcoatl, is pure Mesoamerican.
Subject
[Vases--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza, Pottery--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza, Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza, Maya art--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 800 and 1000
Title
Painted bowl or cup : codex style.
Description
The Maya elite enjoyed drinking cool frothy chocolate water laced with chile or vanilla. The mirror image on this chocolate vessel represents the severed head of the young corn god of the Maya Hero Twins, Hunahpu and Xbalanque. The pseudo-glyphs around the neck of the pot are decorative.
Subject
[Ceramic bowls--Guatemala, Pottery--Guatemala, Ceramic tableware--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Maya art--Guatemala, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 300 and 900
Title
Painted bowl or cup : codex style.
Description
The Maya elite enjoyed drinking cool frothy chocolate water laced with chile or vanilla. The mirror image on this chocolate vessel represents the severed head of the young corn god of the Maya Hero Twins, Hunahpu and Xbalanque. The pseudo-glyphs around the neck of the pot are decorative.
Subject
[Ceramic bowls--Guatemala, Pottery--Guatemala, Ceramic tableware--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Maya art--Guatemala, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 300 and 900
Title
Painted bowl or cup : codex style.
Description
The Maya elite enjoyed drinking cool frothy chocolate water laced with chile or vanilla. The mirror image on this chocolate vessel represents the severed head of the young corn god of the Maya Hero Twins, Hunahpu and Xbalanque. The pseudo-glyphs around the neck of the pot are decorative.
Subject
[Ceramic bowls--Guatemala, Pottery--Guatemala, Ceramic tableware--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Maya art--Guatemala, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 300 and 900
Title
Painted bowl or cup : codex style.
Description
The Maya elite enjoyed drinking cool frothy chocolate water laced with chile or vanilla. The mirror image on this chocolate vessel represents the severed head of the young corn god of the Maya Hero Twins, Hunahpu and Xbalanque. The pseudo-glyphs around the neck of the pot are decorative.
Subject
[Ceramic bowls--Guatemala, Pottery--Guatemala, Ceramic tableware--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Maya art--Guatemala, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 300 and 900
Title
Painted bowl or cup : codex style.
Description
The Maya elite enjoyed drinking cool frothy chocolate water laced with chile or vanilla. The mirror image on this chocolate vessel represents the severed head of the young corn god of the Maya Hero Twins, Hunahpu and Xbalanque. The pseudo-glyphs around the neck of the pot are decorative.
Subject
[Ceramic bowls--Guatemala, Pottery--Guatemala, Ceramic tableware--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Maya art--Guatemala, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 300 and 900
Title
Painted bowl or cup : codex style.
Description
The Maya elite enjoyed drinking cool frothy chocolate water laced with chile or vanilla. The mirror image on this chocolate vessel represents the severed head of the young corn god of the Maya Hero Twins, Hunahpu and Xbalanque. The pseudo-glyphs around the neck of the pot are decorative.
Subject
[Ceramic bowls--Guatemala, Pottery--Guatemala, Ceramic tableware--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Maya art--Guatemala, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 300 and 900
Title
Maya cylinder vessel.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--Mexico, Pottery--Mexico, Ceramic tableware--Mexico, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 550 and 950
Title
Maya cylinder vessel.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--Mexico, Pottery--Mexico, Ceramic tableware--Mexico, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 550 and 950
Title
Maya cylinder vessel.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--Mexico, Pottery--Mexico, Ceramic tableware--Mexico, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 550 and 950
Title
Maya cylinder vessel.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--Mexico, Pottery--Mexico, Ceramic tableware--Mexico, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 550 and 950
Title
Maya cylinder vessel.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--Mexico, Pottery--Mexico, Ceramic tableware--Mexico, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 550 and 950
Title
Maya cylinder vessel.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--Mexico, Pottery--Mexico, Ceramic tableware--Mexico, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 550 and 950
Title
Obsidian blade : no tang.
Description
A flake has been knocked off an obsidian core. The flake was thinned, shaped, and sharpened by pressure flaking. Finally, this blade was embedded into a shaft of a spear.
Subject
[Weapons--Mexico, Stone carving--Mexico, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 250 and 800
Title
Obsidian blade : no tang.
Description
A flake has been knocked off an obsidian core. The flake was thinned, shaped, and sharpened by pressure flaking. Finally, this blade was embedded into a shaft of a spear.
Subject
[Weapons--Mexico, Stone carving--Mexico, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 250 and 800
Title
Obsidian blade : no tang.
Description
A flake has been knocked off an obsidian core. The flake was thinned, shaped, and sharpened by pressure flaking. Finally, this blade was embedded into a shaft of a spear.
Subject
[Weapons--Mexico, Stone carving--Mexico, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 250 and 800
Title
Obsidian blade : no tang.
Description
A flake has been knocked off an obsidian core. The flake was thinned, shaped, and sharpened by pressure flaking. Finally, this blade was embedded into a shaft of a spear.
Subject
[Weapons--Mexico, Stone carving--Mexico, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 250 and 800
Title
Obsidian blade : no tang.
Description
A flake has been knocked off an obsidian core. The flake was thinned, shaped, and sharpened by pressure flaking. Finally, this blade was embedded into a shaft of a spear.
Subject
[Weapons--Mexico, Stone carving--Mexico, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 250 and 800
Title
Hacha : stylized avian, skull or jaguar.
Description
Depending on your point of view, there are three images of death; a skull, a predatory bird, and a jaguar. The hacha represents the three Mesoamerican realms: death and the underworld, life and the land of the living, and the heavens of the ancestors and the gods. Archaeologists believe the notched hacha type was used as a ballcourt marker.
Subject
[Stone carving--Guatemala, Maya sculpture--Guatemala, Maya art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 550 and 900
Title
Hacha : stylized avian, skull or jaguar.
Description
Depending on your point of view, there are three images of death; a skull, a predatory bird, and a jaguar. The hacha represents the three Mesoamerican realms: death and the underworld, life and the land of the living, and the heavens of the ancestors and the gods. Archaeologists believe the notched hacha type was used as a ballcourt marker.
Subject
[Stone carving--Guatemala, Maya sculpture--Guatemala, Maya art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 550 and 900
Title
Hacha : stylized avian, skull or jaguar.
Description
Depending on your point of view, there are three images of death; a skull, a predatory bird, and a jaguar. The hacha represents the three Mesoamerican realms: death and the underworld, life and the land of the living, and the heavens of the ancestors and the gods. Archaeologists believe the notched hacha type was used as a ballcourt marker.
Subject
[Stone carving--Guatemala, Maya sculpture--Guatemala, Maya art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 550 and 900
Title
Hacha : stylized avian, skull or jaguar.
Description
Depending on your point of view, there are three images of death; a skull, a predatory bird, and a jaguar. The hacha represents the three Mesoamerican realms: death and the underworld, life and the land of the living, and the heavens of the ancestors and the gods. Archaeologists believe the notched hacha type was used as a ballcourt marker.
Subject
[Stone carving--Guatemala, Maya sculpture--Guatemala, Maya art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 550 and 900
Title
Hacha : stylized avian, skull or jaguar.
Description
Depending on your point of view, there are three images of death; a skull, a predatory bird, and a jaguar. The hacha represents the three Mesoamerican realms: death and the underworld, life and the land of the living, and the heavens of the ancestors and the gods. Archaeologists believe the notched hacha type was used as a ballcourt marker.
Subject
[Stone carving--Guatemala, Maya sculpture--Guatemala, Maya art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 550 and 900
Title
Hacha : descending serpent.
Description
Mesoamericans viewed the serpent as magical animal that could renew itself by shedding its skin. It lived in the realm of the living, but it had the ability to enter the earth or the realm of the dead. The serpent stands for rebirth, regeneration and transformation. This tenon type of hacha probably was used on a yoke to deflect the rubber ball during the ball game.
Subject
[Stone carving--Guatemala, Maya sculpture--Guatemala, Maya art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 600 and 901
Title
Hacha : descending serpent.
Description
Mesoamericans viewed the serpent as magical animal that could renew itself by shedding its skin. It lived in the realm of the living, but it had the ability to enter the earth or the realm of the dead. The serpent stands for rebirth, regeneration and transformation. This tenon type of hacha probably was used on a yoke to deflect the rubber ball during the ball game.
Subject
[Stone carving--Guatemala, Maya sculpture--Guatemala, Maya art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 600 and 901
Title
Hacha : descending serpent.
Description
Mesoamericans viewed the serpent as magical animal that could renew itself by shedding its skin. It lived in the realm of the living, but it had the ability to enter the earth or the realm of the dead. The serpent stands for rebirth, regeneration and transformation. This tenon type of hacha probably was used on a yoke to deflect the rubber ball during the ball game.
Subject
[Stone carving--Guatemala, Maya sculpture--Guatemala, Maya art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 600 and 901
Title
Hacha : descending serpent.
Description
Mesoamericans viewed the serpent as magical animal that could renew itself by shedding its skin. It lived in the realm of the living, but it had the ability to enter the earth or the realm of the dead. The serpent stands for rebirth, regeneration and transformation. This tenon type of hacha probably was used on a yoke to deflect the rubber ball during the ball game.
Subject
[Stone carving--Guatemala, Maya sculpture--Guatemala, Maya art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 600 and 901
Title
Hacha : descending serpent.
Description
Mesoamericans viewed the serpent as magical animal that could renew itself by shedding its skin. It lived in the realm of the living, but it had the ability to enter the earth or the realm of the dead. The serpent stands for rebirth, regeneration and transformation. This tenon type of hacha probably was used on a yoke to deflect the rubber ball during the ball game.
Subject
[Stone carving--Guatemala, Maya sculpture--Guatemala, Maya art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 600 and 901
Title
Nopiloa ball player wearing a yoke.
Description
Moist clay was pressed into a finely detailed mold of a Maya ballplayer. He wears arm wraps, a yoke around the waist with a hacha, knee pads, and sandals to play the game. His elite status is indicated by his feathered headdress, ear spools, beaded necklace, and his woven garment.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Maya sculpture--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Maya art--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 900
Title
Nopiloa ball player wearing a yoke.
Description
Moist clay was pressed into a finely detailed mold of a Maya ballplayer. He wears arm wraps, a yoke around the waist with a hacha, knee pads, and sandals to play the game. His elite status is indicated by his feathered headdress, ear spools, beaded necklace, and his woven garment.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Maya sculpture--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Maya art--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 900
Title
Nopiloa ball player wearing a yoke.
Description
Moist clay was pressed into a finely detailed mold of a Maya ballplayer. He wears arm wraps, a yoke around the waist with a hacha, knee pads, and sandals to play the game. His elite status is indicated by his feathered headdress, ear spools, beaded necklace, and his woven garment.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Maya sculpture--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Maya art--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 900
Title
Nopiloa ball player wearing a yoke.
Description
Moist clay was pressed into a finely detailed mold of a Maya ballplayer. He wears arm wraps, a yoke around the waist with a hacha, knee pads, and sandals to play the game. His elite status is indicated by his feathered headdress, ear spools, beaded necklace, and his woven garment.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Maya sculpture--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Maya art--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 900
Title
Nopiloa ball player wearing a yoke.
Description
Moist clay was pressed into a finely detailed mold of a Maya ballplayer. He wears arm wraps, a yoke around the waist with a hacha, knee pads, and sandals to play the game. His elite status is indicated by his feathered headdress, ear spools, beaded necklace, and his woven garment.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Maya sculpture--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Maya art--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 900
Title
Nopiloa ball player wearing a yoke.
Description
Moist clay was pressed into a finely detailed mold of a Maya ballplayer. He wears arm wraps, a yoke around the waist with a hacha, knee pads, and sandals to play the game. His elite status is indicated by his feathered headdress, ear spools, beaded necklace, and his woven garment.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Maya sculpture--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Maya art--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 900
Title
Nopiloa ball player wearing a yoke.
Description
Moist clay was pressed into a finely detailed mold of a Maya ballplayer. He wears arm wraps, a yoke around the waist with a hacha, knee pads, and sandals to play the game. His elite status is indicated by his feathered headdress, ear spools, beaded necklace, and his woven garment.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Maya sculpture--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Maya art--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 900
Title
Nopiloa ball player wearing a yoke.
Description
Moist clay was pressed into a finely detailed mold of a Maya ballplayer. He wears arm wraps, a yoke around the waist with a hacha, knee pads, and sandals to play the game. His elite status is indicated by his feathered headdress, ear spools, beaded necklace, and his woven garment.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Maya sculpture--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Maya art--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 900
Title
Nopiloa ball player wearing a yoke.
Description
Moist clay was pressed into a finely detailed mold of a Maya ballplayer. He wears arm wraps, a yoke around the waist with a hacha, knee pads, and sandals to play the game. His elite status is indicated by his feathered headdress, ear spools, beaded necklace, and his woven garment.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Maya sculpture--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Maya art--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 900
Title
Nopiloa ball player wearing a yoke.
Description
Moist clay was pressed into a finely detailed mold of a Maya ballplayer. He wears arm wraps, a yoke around the waist with a hacha, knee pads, and sandals to play the game. His elite status is indicated by his feathered headdress, ear spools, beaded necklace, and his woven garment.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Maya sculpture--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Maya art--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 900
Title
Nopiloa ball player wearing a yoke.
Description
Moist clay was pressed into a finely detailed mold of a Maya ballplayer. He wears arm wraps, a yoke around the waist with a hacha, knee pads, and sandals to play the game. His elite status is indicated by his feathered headdress, ear spools, beaded necklace, and his woven garment.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Maya sculpture--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Maya art--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 900
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