Ceremonial Ballgame Yoke

Veracruz, Classic (El Tajín and vicinity, northern Veracruz, Mexico)

700–800

Medium

Serpentine

Classification

Sculpture

Dimensions

12.7 × 38.1 × 43.2 cm (5 × 15 × 17 in.)

Culture

Veracruz state

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas

Credit line

Gladys N. Anderson and Elisabeth Matthews funds

Rights

Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.

Who can see it

Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago

• Sculpture
• Sport and games
• 8th century
• Mexico
• Orange