DepartmentLatin America
Sacred clay tablet with abstract design
NameTablet
Artist
Artist Not Recorded
Dateca. 1985
Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America
MediumClay
Dimensions1 15/16 × 1 5/8 × 1/2 in. (5 × 4.1 × 1.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.51
Object numberA.2014.26.51
DescriptionTablet with abstract design in center. Two curving lines extend below shape formed by enclosing pair of parallel zig-zag lines. The curving lines swell where they meet at the bottom of the tablet. At the top of the tablet there is a row of zig-zag lines and a bulge on the upper left corner where the tablet was handled before it was completely dry.
