Mola

NameBlouse Fragment

CultureKuna; Cuna

Datec. 1960

Place madeComarca de San Blas, Panama, Central America

MediumCotton

Dimensions15 3/16 × 20 1/16 in. (38.5 × 51 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.67.774

Object numberA.1979.67.774

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Selections from the Museum's Textile Collection

DescriptionAppliqued, commercial cotton, embroidered, multicolors on red ground. Five lizards; one fish; two snakes with head at each end. Butterfly-like background figure has face at top.

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