9393. Vera Cruz Stone Effigy Yoke

Classic Period, Ca. 450 to 650 AD.

Horseshoe shaped ritual ball game implement rendered compactly as a toad, bufo marinus, with broad-face and large rough textures eyes and tongue extending from the broad mouth, the legs bent tightly at the sides; in green gray stone. Size: 16 1/2 in (41.8 cm) Length + custom mount. Provenance: Ex Wallace Katz collection; Exhibited; The Manhattan Galleries, Important Masterpieces of Pre-Columbian Art, May 14, 1983, lot 36, illus. Purportedly exhibited at Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, prior to 1983.

Compare similar examples in Secrets in Stone: Yokes, Hachas and Palmas from Southern Mesoamerica by E. M. Shook & E. Marquis, no Y172 from the Museo Nacional Guatemala.

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