Mola

NameBlouse Fragment

CultureKuna; Cuna

Datec. 1960

Place madeComarca de San Blas, Panama, Central America

MediumCotton

Dimensions14 × 17 1/8 in. (35.5 × 43.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.67.772

Object numberA.1979.67.772

Collections

Panamanian Molas

DescriptionAppliqued, commerical cotton, embroidered, multicolors on red ground. Large bird with serpent twined behind; serpent's tongue stuck out at bird. "SERPIENTE" near serpent; "BEATRIZARTINEZ" on bird. // For a related more legible version see: Parker-Neal, 1977, p. 51.