Guna Mola Textile from Panama

Item Details

A mola cloth panel. Mola are shirt panels in the traditional dress of the Guna people in Panama and Columbia. This panel is made using hand-stitching, reverse appliqué, and embroidery of brightly colored fabric in striped patterns beneath a black top layer. This non-objective piece depicts a motif inspired by the daily life of the person who created it, and may be indicative of detailed bras. It has unfinished edges, is unsigned, and is presented unframed .

Condition

- some pulled threads; accretion to surface; unfinished edges are fraying.

Dimensions

Item #

17DEN142-135