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DepartmentTextiles-Latin America

Mola

NameBlouse Fragment

CultureKuna; Cuna

Datec. 1960

Place madeComarca de San Blas, Panama, Central America

MediumCotton

Dimensions16 15/16 × 16 15/16 in. (43.1 × 43 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1980.1.19

Object numberA.1980.1.19

Collections

Panamanian Molas

DescriptionAppliqued, commercial cotton, embroidered, multicolored on red ground. Man with hat atop llama's back holds alligator. Monkey is atop llama's head. Flora and fauna are around edge with appliqued triangles.

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