Mola

Museum number:
3-30157
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4684
Description:
Mola. 18 cm. high x 24 cm. wide.Cerise over brown base fabric, with applique bird on plant form; black, yellow, greens, orange, blue, white fabric with a sampler of embroidery stitches in cerise, red, blue, green, violet, lavender, orange, yellow. Cerise background under main motif exposes a border of brown base fabric. Unfinished edges.
Donor:
Mary C. Stoddard
Collection place:
Panama
Verbatim coll. place:
Panama City, Panama.
Collector:
Mary C. Stoddard
Collection date:
1986
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Synthetic
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Molas
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
December 17, 1996
Context of use:
The tourist ships give away this type of mola along with the explanatory booklets to their passengers.
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Mola, accession number 3-30157, described as Mola. 18 cm. high x 24 cm. wide.Cerise over brown base fabric, with applique bird on plant form; black, yellow, greens, orange, blue, white fabric with a sampler of embroidery stitches in cerise, red, blue, green, violet, lavender, orange, yellow. Cerise background under main motif exposes a border of brown base fabric. Unfinished edges.

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