Sacred clay cone

NameCone

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Dateca. 1985

Place madeSan Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco, Mexico, North America

MediumClay, yarn, pencil, colored pencil

Dimensions1 5/8 × 15/16 in. (4.1 × 2.4 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.207

Object numberA.2014.26.207

DescriptionCone made of unfired white clay in the shape of a gourd with a bell-like bottom and long neck. Words "Recuerdo de San Juan" painted blue around the bottom. Double strand of light yarn dyed pink knotted at a constriction at the base of the neck. Neck tapers to a curved and rounded tip with a shallow hole below the curve at the top.