DepartmentLatin America

Sacred clay tablet with two hearts

NameTablet

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Dateca. 1985

Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America

MediumClay

Dimensions1 7/8 × 1 5/16 × 3/8 in. (4.8 × 3.4 × 1 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.30

Object numberA.2014.26.30

Collections

Latin America

DescriptionTablet with solid heart near top, encircled by the outline of a larger heart. Straight line extends from larger heart to top of tablet. Branching line passes around base and left side of larger heart. This line loops back and under on right side of base of heart, continuing back toward left edge of tablet.