Standing female ballplayer
Standing female ballplayer

On view

Art of the Ancient Americas

Standing female ballplayer,

1500–1200 BCE

Xochipala
Early Formative Period
2016-1416

Information

Title
Standing female ballplayer
Dates

1500–1200 BCE

Medium
Ceramic with traces of red pigment
Dimensions
16.3 × 5.4 × 3.4 cm (6 7/16 × 2 1/8 × 1 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Gillett G. Griffin
Object Number
2016-1416
Place Made

North America, Mexico, Guerrero, Central Mexico, Xochipala

Culture
Early Preclassic
Period
Early Preclassic
Type
figurines, ceramics
Materials
ceramic, pigment
Subject
women, ball games, ball courts, figures (representations)

Acquired by Gillett G. Griffin (1928-2016), Princeton, NJ, by January 1974 [1]; bequest to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2016.

[1] According to dated slides in the Griffin archive.

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