DepartmentLatin America
Sacred clay tablet with abstract design
NameTablet
Artist
Artist Not Recorded
Dateca. 1985
Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America
MediumClay
Dimensions1 15/16 × 1 13/16 × 9/16 in. (5 × 4.6 × 1.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.101
Object numberA.2014.26.101
DescriptionTablet with abstract design. Two large, hollow wedges with bases at left and right edges of tablet point toward center. Less distinct wedge points down from top of tablet. Curving, elongated cross-shape leans to right at bottom of design. This tablet is almost square.