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 9/16 × 3/8 in. (4.9 × 3.9 × 0.9 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.140

Object numberA.2014.26.140

Collections

Latin America

DescriptionTablet with abstract design. Pair of trapezoids form V in center as well as forming small X where they touch. Bottom half of this X-shape forms triangular top for an arch. A short vertical line is in center of the arch. Two apparent plant forms with short leaf-like extensions on curving stalks rise out of the V-shape towards top corner of tablet.