Mola

NameBlouse Fragment

CultureKuna; Cuna

Datec. 1960

Place madeComarca de San Blas, Panama, Central America

MediumCotton

Dimensions15 3/16 × 21 1/16 in. (38.5 × 53.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.67.773

Object numberA.1979.67.773

Collections

Panamanian Molas

DescriptionAppliqued, commercial cotton, embroidered, multicolors on red ground. 6 lizards, 3 two-headed snakes. Butterfly-like background figure has face on top.

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