DepartmentLatin America

Sacred clay tablet with representation of a heart-shaped animal head or mask

NameTablet

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Dateca. 1985

Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America

MediumClay

Dimensions2 × 1 5/8 × 1/2 in. (5.1 × 4.2 × 1.2 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.10

Object numberA.2014.26.10

DescriptionTablet with the representation of a heart-shaped animal head or a mask. The head or mask appears to have eyes and eyebrows. Horizontal line near bottom of tablet. The image could also be a heart, but with a rounded rather than pointed base. The eye-like marking could have a completely different significance.