DepartmentLatin America

Sacred clay tablet with design resembling a coat of arms

NameTablet

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Dateca. 1985

Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America

MediumClay

Dimensions2 1/8 × 1 9/16 × 7/16 in. (5.4 × 3.9 × 1.1 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.75

Object numberA.2014.26.75

Collections

Latin America

DescriptionTablet with design in center resembling a coat of arms. Zig-zag crenulations run along the top of a shield. Interior of shield has an arrangement of diagonal lines intersectng to form a sideways square in the center of the shield. At the bottom, two, narrow, pointed, short lines angle to left and right.