Mola

NameBlouse Fragment

CultureKuna; Cuna

Datec. 1960

Place madeComarca de San Blas, Panama, Central America

MediumCotton

Dimensions15 3/4 × 20 11/16 in. (40 × 52.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.67.762

Object numberA.1979.67.762

Collections

Panamanian Molas

DescriptionAppliqued, commercial cotton, embroidered, applied rick-rack, multicolored on dark red ground. Two males facing each other. Each with headdress, skirt with rick-rack, hand around neck of small figure held toward center.

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c. 1950

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c. 1960

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ca. +/- 1920

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Dress, Fiesta

Artist unrecorded

ca. 1950