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

Collections

Latin America

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.