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Miniature Ball-Game Objects from Mesoamerica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Frederick J. Dockstader
Frederick J. Dockstader*
Affiliation:
Museum of the American Indian, New York, New York
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Abstract

Five objects from Mexico and Guatemala, thought to be replicas of ball-game paraphernalia, are described and illustrated. They seem to fit into a pattern of other small-sized reproductions from the region and were perhaps intended for ritual use.

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Facts and Comments
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American Antiquity , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , April 1968, pp. 251 - 253
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1968

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References

Borhegyi, Stephan De 1966 A Miniature Ceremonial Ball Game Yoke from Mexico. American Antiquity, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 742–4. Salt Lake City.Google Scholar
Fewkes, Jesse Walter 1907 Certain Antiquities of Eastern Mexico. Bureau of American Ethnology, 25th Annual Report, pp. 221–84. Washington.Google Scholar