Mola

Museum number:
3-30189
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Alternate number:
MVC-0021/MVC-0022 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
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.
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
San Blas Islands, Panama
Verbatim coll. place:
Latin America; Panama; San Blas Islands; Cuna
Culture or time period:
Kuna
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Collection date:
1967
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Embroidery (visual works) and Molas
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Context of use:
part of woman's blouse; trade item
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Images:
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.

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