DepartmentLatin America
Sacred clay tablet with vertical geometric design
NameTablet
Artist
Artist unrecorded
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.2014.26.74
Object numberA.2014.26.74
DescriptionTablet with vertical geometric design filling center. Large rectangle has three triangular extentions at tip and contains two large, hollow octagons. Each octagon is flanked by a pair of hollow wedges which point inward beside lower octagon and outward from upper octagon. Design resembles a coat of arms. The octagons are indented into the surface of the tablet.
CA 1960, STAFF
