DepartmentLatin America

Sacred clay tablet with abstract linear design

NameTablet

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Dateca. 1985

Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America

MediumClay

Dimensions1 7/8 × 1 1/2 × 7/16 in. (4.8 × 3.8 × 1.1 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.143

Object numberA.2014.26.143

DescriptionTablet with abstract linear design. At base of tablet, a short chevron points up at two facing upright zig-zags which form an upright diamond where they intersect in upper section of tablet. Three short chevron shapes extend from left side of diamond towards left edge of tablet. On the right side of the diamond, two more chevrons extend towards right edge of tablet.