DepartmentLatin America
Sacred clay tablet with octagon in center
NameTablet
Artist
Artist unrecorded
Dateca. 1985
Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America
MediumClay
Dimensions1 15/16 × 1 9/16 × 1/2 in. (5 × 3.9 × 1.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.81
Object numberA.2014.26.81
DescriptionTablet with octagon in center. Solid vertical rectangle in middle of octagon. Two hollow squares flank octagon. Sides and bottom of octagon have geometric designs where they touch edges of tablet. Pair of small triangles on top of octagon.
CA 1960, STAFF
