Despite its small size, only about 6.4 centimeters in height, it is a figure of great anthropological value, since it is one of the few idols of prehistorical Tenerife that survived to the modern day.
Guatimac represents a rarity within the idols of the Canary Islands, since it has no parallels within the rest of the remains of the extinct Guanche culture.
However, rock carvings representing a certain type of evil Jinns, the Yenum or Jenun, have been found in desert caves within the Berber cultural zone of North Africa.
He offers us this description of the idol's discovery and subsequent study:[5] "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, "del muñeco de barro", that the guañameñe and smaraine priests used to hang around their neck as a pectoral.
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.