Mola

NameBlouse Fragment

CultureKuna; Cuna

Datec. 1960

Place madeComarca de San Blas, Panama, Central America

MediumCotton

Dimensions17 5/16 × 18 5/16 in. (44 × 46.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.67.764

Object numberA.1979.67.764

Collections

Panamanian Molas

DescriptionAppliqued, commercial cotton, embroidered, multicolors on red ground. Large man holds mermaid siren on lap. "EL HOMBRE Y LA SIRENA" across top. Man on stool, fish, star, man with fish on line.

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Early 1940s

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Artist Not Recorded

ca. 1910

Mola

c. 1960