DepartmentLatin America
Sacred clay tablet with abstract design
NameTablet
Artist
Artist unrecorded
Dateca. 1985
Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America
MediumClay
Dimensions2 1/16 × 1 9/16 × 9/16 in. (5.2 × 4 × 1.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.126
Object numberA.2014.26.126
DescriptionTablet with abstract design in center. Inverted isoceles triangle extends down from top edge of tablet to lower section where the point rests on a vertical line coming up from the bottom edge. At the intersection, two long, narrow, organic shapes curve upward. In the center of the triangle, a small pentagonal shape is connected to the two longer edges of the triangle by four lines.
