Mola

NameBlouse Fragment

CultureKuna; Cuna

Datec. 1960

Place madeComarca de San Blas, Panama, Central America

MediumCotton

Dimensions16 9/16 × 20 1/2 in. (42 × 52 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.67.943

Object numberA.1979.67.943

Collections

Panamanian Molas

DescriptionAppliqued, commercial cotton, embroidered, multicolored on red ground. Bird sacrificed by two figures with spears. Smaller figures encircled below in burial grounds (?). Sacrificial vessel (?) at left, star and 3-prong object on right. Abstract designs.

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