Mola

NameBlouse Fragment

CultureKuna; Cuna

Datec. 1960

Place madeComarca de San Blas, Panama, Central America

MediumCotton

Dimensions15 3/16 × 19 1/8 in. (38.5 × 48.6 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.67.876

Object numberA.1979.67.876

Collections

Multiple Visions: A Common Bond
Panamanian Molas

DescriptionAppliqued, commercial cotton, embroidered, multicolored on red ground; 2 boxers fighting, members of audience in top right corner and bottom left corner; "ROBINSON GARCIA LAGUNA" at top; design from news photo. // Mounted by A. Girard. Parker-Neal, 1977, page 128 shows an almost identical mola.