DepartmentLatin America

Sacred clay tablet mold

NameMold

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Dateca. 1985

Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America

MediumWood

Dimensions13 3/8 × 1 11/16 × 13/16 in. (34 × 4.3 × 2 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.150

Object numberA.2014.26.150

DescriptionTall wood mold carved in six sections. Top section depicts cross. Second section depicts pair of tall plants. Third section depicts jug with handle. Fourth section depicts four-legged animal with leg on lower right incomplete. Bottom section shows what might be the simplified, geometric image of a single plant with three pairs of opposite leaves.