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 1/2 × 7/16 in. (5 × 3.8 × 1.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.119
Object numberA.2014.26.119
DescriptionTablet with abstract design left of center. Image slightly resembles a leaf with three pointed lobes. Long middle lobe extends prominently upward and is flanked at top by two small triangular wedges. Horizontal line at base of image. Left side of image abuts left edge of tablet.
