DepartmentLatin America

Sacred clay tablet with linear design suggesting a tree

NameTablet

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Dateca. 1985

Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America

MediumClay

Dimensions2 1/16 × 1 1/2 × 7/16 in. (5.2 × 3.8 × 1.1 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.83

Object numberA.2014.26.83

DescriptionTablet with linear design suggesting a tree. Inside the top of the apparent crown of the tree, an upward arching line closely follows the contour. Attached to the curving base of the apparent trunk of the tree, two small arrow shapes might represent shoots growing from the roots. The meaning of the imagery as described could be completely different.