Mola

NameBlouse Fragment

CultureKuna; Cuna

Datec. 1960

Place madeComarca de San Blas, Panama, Central America

MediumCotton

Dimensions14 13/16 × 20 9/16 in. (37.7 × 52.2 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.67.860

Object numberA.1979.67.860

Collections

Panamanian Molas

DescriptionAppliqued, embroidered commercial cotton, multicolored on orange ground. Four large amoeba-like figures separated by 11 human figures at center, and central top and bottom. // Possibly seed pod motif, see: Parker-Neal, 1977, p. 56.

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