DepartmentLatin America
Sacred clay tablet mold
NameMold
Artist
Artist unrecorded
Dateca. 1985
Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America
MediumWood
Dimensions7 5/8 × 2 5/16 × 1 in. (19.3 × 5.9 × 2.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.147
Object numberA.2014.26.147
DescriptionWood mold carved in three large vertical sections. Top section shows an abstract shape with two curving lines expanding up and out. A wedge shape points down from the top. A large heart is in the center of the middle section, with an X in the lower right corner. The lower section has a cross in the center. An X is in the lower left corner and an upright oval shape which comes to a point at the bottom is in the lower right corner.
