Mola

NameBlouse Fragment

CultureKuna; Cuna

Datec. 1960

Place madeComarca de San Blas, Panama, Central America

MediumCotton

Dimensions14 15/16 × 20 1/4 in. (38 × 51.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.67.869

Object numberA.1979.67.869

Collections

Panamanian Molas

DescriptionAppliqued, commercial cotton, embroidered, multicolored on red ground. Large lizard with large white teeth, curled so that head and tail point to right. Legend: "chacha."

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