Mola

NameBlouse Fragment

CultureKuna; Cuna

Datec. 1960

Place madeComarca de San Blas, Panama, Central America

MediumCotton

Dimensions15 3/16 × 20 1/2 in. (38.5 × 52 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.67.939

Object numberA.1979.67.939

Collections

Panamanian Molas

DescriptionAppliqued, commercial cotton, multicolored on black ground. Five rows of multicolored oval motifs on orange ground. Four rows with central orange cross motif in circular design outlined with serrated line.

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