DepartmentLatin America
Sacred clay tablet with crucifix in center and row of flowers or beads around perimeter
NameTablet
Artist
Artist unrecorded
Dateca. 1985
Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America
MediumClay
Dimensions2 3/16 × 1 9/16 × 1/2 in. (5.6 × 4 × 1.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.62
Object numberA.2014.26.62
DescriptionTablet with crucifix in center and row of flowers or beads around perimenter. What appear to be weights are suspended from both arms of cross. Weights appear to be stacked pairs of stones attached to crossbars by three chains on each side. The arrangement makes the cross look like a scale.
Artist unrecorded
ca. 1985
c. 1890-1910
