DepartmentLatin America

Sacred clay tablet with image of St. Christopher carrying infant Jesus on his shoulder across a shallow river

NameTablet

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Dateca. 1985

Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America

MediumClay

Dimensions2 3/8 × 1 15/16 × 3/8 in. (6.1 × 4.9 × 1 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.97

Object numberA.2014.26.97

Collections

Latin America

DescriptionTablet with image of Saint Christopher carrying infant Jesus on his shoulder across a shallow river. Head of infant is prominent but body is not shown. Saint's legs are hidden by water below shins. His left arm bends upward with section of incomplete staff below hand. Tall arch extends up along edges of tablet and over figures.