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Sacred clay tablet with abstract design
Sacred clay tablet with abstract design
Sacred clay tablet with abstract design
DepartmentLatin America

Sacred clay tablet with abstract design

NameTablet
Artist Artist unrecorded
Dateca. 1985
Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America
MediumClay
Dimensions1 7/8 × 1 5/8 × 9/16 in. (4.7 × 4.1 × 1.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.13
Object numberA.2014.26.13
DescriptionTablet with abstract design. Two arrow-shapes point left from the right side of the tablet at center and bottom. Filling the left side of the tablet, an upright double-curving shape with barbs at both ends comes to a left-facing point in the center.