DepartmentLatin America
Sacred clay tablet with image of St. Christopher carrying infant Jesus on his shoulder across a shallow river
NameTablet
Artist
Artist unrecorded
Dateca. 1985
Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America
MediumClay
Dimensions2 3/8 × 1 15/16 × 3/8 in. (6.1 × 4.9 × 1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.97
Object numberA.2014.26.97
DescriptionTablet with image of Saint Christopher carrying infant Jesus on his shoulder across a shallow river. Head of infant is prominent but body is not shown. Saint's legs are hidden by water below shins. His left arm bends upward with section of incomplete staff below hand. Tall arch extends up along edges of tablet and over figures.
Artist unrecorded
ca. 1985
late 19th-early 20th Century
Artist unrecorded
