Cleveland Museum of Art
Ballgame Palma
- Date
- 900–1100
- Medium
- stone, pigment
- Culture
- Mexico, Gulf Coast, Classic Veracruz style (600-1100)
- Department
- Art of the Americas
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Stone palmas, so-called today for their palm-frond-like shape, are ceremonial sculptures that may replicate lightweight gear worn over the chest during the ballgame. Palma imagery is not well-studied and the meaning of the caiman (New World alligator) carved on both sides of this example is unknown. The tail is beautifully adapted to the palma's curved upper edge.
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