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Sacred clay tablet with plant form
Sacred clay tablet with plant form
Sacred clay tablet with plant form
DepartmentLatin America

Sacred clay tablet with plant form

NameTablet
Artist Artist Not Recorded
Dateca. 1985
Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America
MediumClay
Dimensions1 15/16 × 1 1/2 × 7/16 in. (4.9 × 3.8 × 1.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.35
Object numberA.2014.26.35
Collections
DescriptionTablet with plant form in center. Single stalk extends from bottom to top of tablet with six leaves attached. Thin crescent at base of stalk represents first pair of leaves. Pair of opposite straight narrow leaves part way up stalk. Two more leaves spaced alternately near top of stalk.
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