DepartmentLatin America
Sacred clay tablet with crucifix
NameTablet
Artist
Artist unrecorded
Dateca. 1985
Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America
MediumClay
Dimensions2 3/8 × 1 7/8 × 3/8 in. (6 × 4.7 × 1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.117
Object numberA.2014.26.117
DescriptionTablet with crucifix low in center. Section of cross faintly visible behind figure which is relatively small. Cross leans to right. Two large flowers flank cross. Five abstract, probably floral, shapes similar to elongated droplets of liquid extend up and out along both sides of the legs of the figure.
