DepartmentLatin America

Sacred clay tablet with complex abstract design

NameTablet

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Dateca. 1985

Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America

MediumClay

Dimensions1 15/16 × 1 5/8 × 3/8 in. (4.9 × 4.1 × 1 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.73

Object numberA.2014.26.73

DescriptionTablet with complex abstract design. Main elements are a pair of unevenly sized, squared off C shapes facing away from each other. The backs of these two shapes are close enough together that connecting them with a pair of short diagonal lines forms a trapezoid. At the top of the design, two triangles each have a wedge shape above.