Kuna
Mola: Snake
1939-1969
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Kuna
Mola: Snake
1939-1969
Physical Qualities
Cotton, 15 x 18 in. (38.1 x 45.7 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Nancy and Robert Swindell, Baltimore
Object Number
2013.144
Panamanian mola appliqué and reverse appliqué panel. Ground is orange. Appliquéd and reverse appliquéd solid and printed fabrics in black, white, green, darker orange, yellow, blue. Pattern is possibly of a snake coiled with tail on outside and head on inside. Figure takes up most of the ground but there are some semi circular abstract lines around the snake form. Panel was used as either the front or back of a woman's blouse.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2013; Nancy Swindell, Baltimore
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Charlotte Patera. Mola Making.
Michael Perrin. Magnificent Molas.
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Enrique Chaves and Linnea Angermuller. About Molas.
Rhoda Auld. Molas.
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Capt. Kit S. Kapp. Mola Art from the San Blas Islands. (1972)
