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Ritual Ballgame Handstone (Manopla)

Date

250 BCE-250 CE

Creator

Unrecorded Maya artist

Location

Raclin Murphy Museum of Art

The strap handle of this manopla is grasped by slipping the fingers into the wide rear opening and out the narrow front one. The size and shape suggest this manopla was swung at the ball, and not used to punch it. from Bradley, Life, Death & Duality: A Handbook of the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C. Collection of Ritual Ballgame Sculpture (Notre Dame, 1997)

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The strap handle of this manopla is grasped by slipping the fingers into the wide rear opening and out the narrow front one. The size and shape suggest this manopla was swung at the ball, and not used to punch it. from Bradley, Life, Death & Duality: A Handbook of the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C. Collection of Ritual Ballgame Sculpture (Notre Dame, 1997)
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Unrecorded Maya artist
250 BCE-250 CE
Tools, Implements, and Weights
Basalt
1993.015
ball game equipment
basalt
Maya
Not on view, please request access
4 1/8 in. (10.49 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Carney, by Exchange

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