DepartmentLatin America

Sacred clay tablet with crucified figure but no cross

NameTablet

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Dateca. 1985

Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America

MediumClay

Dimensions2 × 1 5/8 × 1/2 in. (5.1 × 4.2 × 1.2 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.131

Object numberA.2014.26.131

Collections

Latin America

DescriptionTablet with crucified figure but no cross. Five short lines form corona above head of figure. Two small flowers above figure on left, one on right. Plant curves up from lower left corner of tablet, branching once beside legs of figure. Flowers are above both main stalk and branch. Another plant with flowers to right of figure. Pair of flowers at base of tablet.