Mola
Date1950s-60s
Label TextMolas are colorful multi-layered panels that adorn women’s blouses of the Guna people of coastal Panama. The earliest designs were primarily adapted from geometric body painting but evolved into a florescence of motifs including mythological beings, sea creatures, and everyday scenes. This mola seems to depict community fishing boats and their English names.
Object number2018.26.6
ProvenancePrivate collection, Shaw Island, Washington, by the 1960s; to the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2018
Photo CreditPhoto: Elizabeth Mann
Credit LineGift of an anonymous donor
Dimensions22 1/2 x 25 in. (57.2 x 63.5 cm)
MediumCotton cloth and cotton thread
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