Images(3)

DepartmentTextiles-Latin America

Mola

NameBlouse Fragment

CultureKuna; Cuna

Datec. 1960

Place madeComarca de San Blas, Panama, Central America

MediumCotton

Dimensions21 7/8 × 26 1/8 in. (55.5 × 66.3 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.67.811

Object numberA.1979.67.811

Collections

Panamanian Molas

DescriptionAppliqued, commercial cotton, multicolored on red ground. Man standing before a large crouching dragon which has raised wings, hooked beak, long curved tail, long black claws on its four feet and multicolored triangles spotting its body.

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