DepartmentLatin America

Sacred clay tablet with abstract design

NameTablet

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Dateca. 1985

Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America

MediumClay

Dimensions2 × 1 11/16 × 1/2 in. (5.1 × 4.3 × 1.2 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.125

Object numberA.2014.26.125

Collections

Latin America

DescriptionTablet with abstract design. Stacked sequence of three inverted linear chevrons span width of tablet at top. At bottom, point of lowest chevron rests on horizontal bow shape with an interior space divided evenly by four vertical lines. In the center of the top chevron a hollow square is turned sideways.