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Start Over Donor Kathleen Vitale Culture or time period Circum-Caribbean cultures
Hearst Museum object titled Mola, accession number 3-30205, described as Mola, 50 x 42 cm; Large central motif is cat-like figure w/ large feathered tail; smaller bird motifs found in each quadrant; large fill like abstract letters; smaller fill included; top layer red, yellow, black, purple, orange, blue, green, pink, gold white.
Hearst Museum object titled Mola, accession number 3-30202, described as Mola; 52 x 46 cm;motifs: 2 monkeys by fountain (?) topped by small cross; dome-like architectural element with flag on top surrounds central figures; each corner contains creature; birds on top, monkeys on bottom;leaf motif fills sides; fill small dots and triangles; red top layer, black, off white, green, orange, blue and pink. see 3-30199 probable pair.
Hearst Museum object titled Mola, accession number 3-30203, described as Mola; 49.5 x 39.5 cm; two human figures in costumes resembling British Beefeaters; left hand of each is raised, holding star-like form. right hand of each holds small bag; small human figure at center bottom; small flower-like form at center top with a 4-pointed star on the top in the other; fill rectangular . Note that large human figures contain fill of applique finger like shapes. Red predominate with pink, orange, yellow, white, blue, green, black and purple.
Hearst Museum object titled Mola, accession number 3-30189, described as Molas, pair sewn together at edge; 107.5 cm x 42 cm.; matching panels with reversed colors; left panel has black background and red figures; right panel has red background (made of two pieces sewn together horizontally) and black figures. outline colors are orange and yellow and are also reversed in position from panel to panel; other colors include orange, yellow, pink, green, purple, printed cotton. each panel has two, large anthropomorphic forms with extended arms and legs enclosing smaller motifs and four fish or shark forms, two at center of panel and on each edge. flower forms above ; narrow strips of orange sawtoothing cloth are sewn along top edges.
Hearst Museum object titled Mola, accession number 3-30198, described as Mola; 48 x 42 cm.; red, green, black, orange, yellow, blue, printed fabric, pink, purple; white and yellow commercial rickrack, multicolored embroidery; central motif, flying fish with antenna-like projections w/ nautical motifs on back; background motifs, motor launch with two fisherman and dog, two abstract forms, and a fish; fill, small squares.
Hearst Museum object titled Mola, accession number 3-30188a,b, described as Molas, matched pair; a) 54.5 cm x 38 cm. Four layers black, then orange and red, bottom layer is royal blue; additional colors used in appliqued fill.; Upper edge trim: bands of red, orange and pink and hand-made sawtooth in black over lime; two long eel-like creatures form the main design motifs; smaller abstract motifs and crosses are positioned between the horizontal eels; vertical slits used as fill; each slit is itself filled with a color: purple, yellow, white, blue, green pink, black, and printed fabric. b) similar to a) except heads and tails of creatures reverse directions; also slight color variations in the fil.l
Hearst Museum object titled Mola, accession number 3-30187, described as Molas, matched pair; sewn together on one side and connected by narrow lengthwise band of blue cotton; red predominant with orange secondary and many other colors and small amount of printed cloth. Left panel; large semi-circular form at top; other forms outlined below, with total of 7 flags on panel and background in zigzag rectangular and diamond shapes; Right panel; large central motif including flag at top and two human forms at bottom; smaller elongated motifs at left; background fill of rectangels and several crosses;
Hearst Museum object titled Mola, accession number 3-30210, described as Mola, 53.25 x 41.5 cm; Two rows of geometrically indentical crennulated rows; Red, orange, white, green, light blue, dark blue, light purple, printed fabric; trim with black stitched on blue.
Hearst Museum object titled Scarf, accession number 3-30196, described as Printed scarf ; red with yellow pattern (two identical pieces sewn together);124 cm x 61 cm.

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