Mola

NameBlouse Fragment

CultureKuna; Cuna

Datec. 1960

Place madeComarca de San Blas, Panama, Central America

MediumCotton

Dimensions18 3/8 × 21 1/8 × 5 7/8 in. (46.6 × 53.6 × 15 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.67.977

Object numberA.1979.67.977

Collections

Panamanian Molas

DescriptionAppliqued, commercial cotton, embroidered, multicolored on red ground. Rooster hovers over animal-like figure with human head with fingers in ears. Vertical slits above serpent's head. Triangular slits.

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