DepartmentLatin America

Sacred clay tablet with crucifix in center and row of flowers or beads around perimeter

NameTablet

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Dateca. 1985

Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America

MediumClay

Dimensions2 3/16 × 1 9/16 × 1/2 in. (5.6 × 4 × 1.2 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.62

Object numberA.2014.26.62

Collections

Latin America

DescriptionTablet with crucifix in center and row of flowers or beads around perimenter. What appear to be weights are suspended from both arms of cross. Weights appear to be stacked pairs of stones attached to crossbars by three chains on each side. The arrangement makes the cross look like a scale.