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Collection Online as of May 13, 2024
Stela Fragment
600–950
Each: 31.8 x 30.8 x 12.2 cm (12 1/2 x 12 1/8 x 4 13/16 in.)
Location: 233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region
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The pointed teeth of the warrior are suggestive of dental modification, a practice known to have occurred from human remains.Description
Figures appear on two sides of this fragmentary stela (upright stone slab carved in relief). One seems to represent a grimacing warrior who brandishes a club; arrow-like darts festoon his belt and hair. On the other side is a skeleton with one fleshed hand, perhaps a sacrificed captive. The eagle with a leaf in its mouth is a hieroglyph that may identify the captive's name.- ?-1959(Black Tulip Galleries, Inc., Dallas, TX, 1959, sold to James C. and Florence C. Gruener)1959-1959James C. [1903-1990] and Florence C. [1908-1982] Gruener, Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art1959-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Lee, Sherman E. "Year in Review| 1960." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 47, no. 10 (1960): 223-54. www.jstor.orgPrufer, Olaf H. "A Post-Classic Mexican Stele." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 49, no. 8 (1962): 191-95. p. 191-2 www.jstor.orgCleveland Museum of Art, “Mexican Limestone Stele Top,” October 17, 1962, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.orgPrufer, Olaf H. "Die Kunst Des "Southern Cult" in Den östlichen Vereinigten Staaten." Paideuma 11 (1965): 68-90. Tafel II www.jstor.orgTurner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1984." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 2 (1985): 163-207. www.jstor.orgYoung-Sánchez, Margaret. "The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 79, no. 7 (1992): 234-75. Mentioned: cat. no. 97. p. 273, Reproduced: fig. 97, p. 259 www.jstor.org
- The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 4-November 29, 1992).The Arts of Pre- Hispanic America. The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA (organizer) (April 12-May 31, 1970).Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1959.334