DepartmentLatin America
Sacred clay tablet with plant-like form
NameTablet
Artist
Artist Not Recorded
Dateca. 1985
Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America
MediumClay
Dimensions1 7/8 × 1 15/16 × 9/16 in. (4.8 × 4.9 × 1.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.33
Object numberA.2014.26.33
DescriptionTablet with plant-like form in center. Short stalk rises from thick crescent at bottom of tablet. Two opposing long, narrow leaves curve out from the top of the stalk in middle of tablet. Directly above, in upper section of tablet, two similar but smaller opposite leaves float in an otherwise empty space.
Artist Not Recorded
ca. 1985
