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 9/16 × 7/16 in. (5 × 4 × 1.1 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.141

Object numberA.2014.26.141

Collections

Latin America

DescriptionTablet with abstract design. Small, solid horizontal rectangle in center. On each side, two curving lines extend out from the corners towards the edges of the tablet. Two horizontal lines also extend outwards from the sides of the rectangle towards the edges of the tablet. Repeating short horizontal and diagonal lines form simple stepped design at top and bottom of the tablet.