DepartmentLatin America

Sacred clay tablet with heart above sequence of three arrow shapes

NameTablet

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Dateca. 1985

Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America

MediumClay

Dimensions1 15/16 × 1 1/2 × 1/2 in. (5 × 3.8 × 1.2 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.52

Object numberA.2014.26.52

Collections

Latin America

DescriptionTablet with heart at upper center. Sequence of three arrow shapes line up below heart. Single center line extends from apex of lowest arrow shape to where the base of the heart comes to a point. Top arrow shape touches base of heart. Both ends of lowest arrow shape touch the bottom edge of the tablet, so it appears to be supporting the other arrow shapes and the heart.