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Mola

NameBlouse Fragment
CultureKuna; Cuna
Datec. 1960
Place madeComarca de San Blas, Panama, Central America
MediumCotton
Dimensions17 5/16 × 18 5/16 in. (44 × 46.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.67.764
Object numberA.1979.67.764
DescriptionAppliqued, commercial cotton, embroidered, multicolors on red ground. Large man holds mermaid siren on lap. "EL HOMBRE Y LA SIRENA" across top. Man on stool, fish, star, man with fish on line.
Embroidery
Policarpio Valencia
1925
Embroidery by Policarpio Valencia.
Policarpio Valencia
1927
Embroidery
Policarpio Valencia
before 1931
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Early 1940s
Embroidery
Policarpio Valencia
ca. 1927
Mola
c. 1960
Mola
c. 1960
Mola
c. 1960
Mola
c. 1960
Mola
c. 1960
Mola
c. 1960