Walls of the Tlachtli (Ball) Court, Chichén Itzá
- Title:
- Walls of the Tlachtli (Ball) Court, Chichén Itzá
- Collection:
- Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photographs Collection
- Creation Date:
- 900-1100 (building)
ca. 1895-ca. 1935 (photograph)
- Location:
- Ruinas Chichén-Itzá, Yucatán, Mexico
- Country:
- Mexico
- ID Number:
- 661
- Accession Number:
- 15/5/3090.00661
- Collection Number:
- 15-5-3090
- File Name:
- 00661.jpg
- Style/Period:
- Maya
- Materials/Techniques:
- gelatin silver prints
- Subject:
- Chichén Itzá, Yucatán, Mexico
ruins
archaeology
athletic fields
Rock
Plants
photographs - Measurement:
- 13.335 x 22.225 (centimeters)
- Description:
- "The ball court (for playing the game tlachtli [Mayan: pok-ta-pok]), is 545 feet (166 metres) long and 223 feet (68 metres) wide, the largest such court in the Americas. Six sculpted reliefs run the length of the walls of the court, apparently depicting the victors of the game holdin g the severed head of a member of the losing team. On the upper platform at one end of the court stands the Temple of the Jaguars, inside of which is a mural showing warriors laying siege to a village. Standing on the platform of the temple to the north of the court, it is possible to hear a whisper from 150 feet (46 metres) away." (Source: Encyclopedia Britannica)
- Source:
- Data from: A.D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library
http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/adw/albumen.htm - Cite As:
- Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photograph Collection, #15-5-3090. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- Andrew Dickson White architectural photograph collection
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in this collection are in the public domain and are believed to have no known U.S. copyright or other restrictions. The Library does not charge for permission to use these materials and does not grant or deny permission to publish or otherwise distribute them. However, as a good scholarly practice we recommend that all patrons cite the Library as the source of the reproduction. For a more detailed explanation please read the Library Guidelines for Using Public Domain Text, Images, Audio, and Video Reproduced from Cornell University Library Collections at http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright.