Image: Idolillo "guatimac" (reproducción de Juan Bethencourt Alfonso)

Description: Reproduction of the Guanche "Guatimac" idol from Tenerife by Juan Bethencourt Alfonso in his work "Historia del Pueblo Guanche". "One that we examined from the pharmacist Don Ramón Gómez of Puerto de la Cruz, was found in 1885 in a cave in the Erques ravine in Fasnia, wrapped in skins, like the rest we found, is a little smaller, although the same family, a guatimac, or as the commoners like to say, "mud figurine", that the guañameñe and "samarin" priests used to hang around their neck as a pectoral. The symbol or idol we are dealing with is made of fired clay, although the firing is uneven and the colour is yellowish-white. The figurine is incomplete since a small piece of what can be called a cranial vault or a helmet, as indicated by the interruption of the profile, and the dotted line indicates the site, towards the neck, where there's a hole to pass a strap in order to wear it. The figurine is flattened front to back and is 6 to 7 millimeter thick, except at the base, where it is a centimeter thick." — Juan Bethencourt Alfonso
Title: Idolillo "guatimac" (reproducción de Juan Bethencourt Alfonso)
Credit: https://guanartemtoag.blogspot.com/2016/03/guatimac.html
Author: Juan Bethencourt Alfonso
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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