DepartmentLatin America
Sacred clay tablet with crucifixion scene
NameTablet
Artist
Artist unrecorded
Dateca. 1985
Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America
MediumClay
Dimensions2 × 1 9/16 × 7/16 in. (5.1 × 3.9 × 1.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.37
Object numberA.2014.26.37
DescriptionTablet with crucifixion scene at center. Figures of Mary and John the Evangelist pray on opposite sides of base of cross. Row of very short, vertical lines at bottom of tablet. Representation of sun or very large flower at top right corner of tablet.
18th century, C. Mather
