DepartmentLatin America

Sacred clay tablet with two triangles

NameTablet

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Dateca. 1985

Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America

MediumClay

Dimensions1 7/8 × 1 9/16 × 7/16 in. (4.7 × 3.9 × 1.1 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.67

Object numberA.2014.26.67

Collections

Latin America

DescriptionTablet with small triangle inside larger triangle in upper half of tablet. Smaller triangle is formed by the intersection of lines parallel to sides and base inside of the larger triangle. Two thick lines drop from base of larger triangle to bottom of tablet with short horizontal extensions near bottom. Surface of tabet is rough at apex of triangles and especially along left edge.