DepartmentLatin America

Sacred clay tablet with abstract design

NameTablet

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Dateca. 1985

Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America

MediumClay

Dimensions2 1/16 × 1 9/16 × 9/16 in. (5.2 × 4 × 1.4 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.126

Object numberA.2014.26.126

Collections

Latin America

DescriptionTablet with abstract design in center. Inverted isoceles triangle extends down from top edge of tablet to lower section where the point rests on a vertical line coming up from the bottom edge. At the intersection, two long, narrow, organic shapes curve upward. In the center of the triangle, a small pentagonal shape is connected to the two longer edges of the triangle by four lines.