DepartmentLatin America

Sacred clay tablet mold

NameMold

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Dateca. 1985

Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America

MediumWood

Dimensions7 5/16 × 1 3/4 × 13/16 in. (18.5 × 4.4 × 2 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.149

Object numberA.2014.26.149

DescriptionWood mold carved in three sections. Top section shows five-petaled flower with two pairs of leaves on stem below. Middle section is incomplete and depicts a structure with a tall door flanked by a pair of windows. An arrow shape is above the right side of the structure. Bottom section shows body and left wing of a bird. The right wing is incomplete.