DepartmentLatin America

Sacred clay tablet mold

NameMold

Artist Artist unrecorded

Dateca. 1985

Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America

MediumClay

Dimensions2 3/4 × 2 5/16 × 7/16 in. (7 × 5.8 × 1.1 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.152

Object numberA.2014.26.152

DescriptionFired grey clay mold with crucifix in center. No cross. Curving figure leans slightly to left. Tall plant (lily) with many leaves bends left next to left side of figure. Another tall plant curves around flower with five petals on right side of figure. Five short lines form corona above head of figure. Pair of multi-petaled flowers above head and arms of figure to left and right.