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Guna Mola Textile Panels
Item Details
A pair of mola cloth panels. Mola are shirt panels in the traditional dress of the Guna people in Panama and Columbia. These panels are made using hand-stitching, reverse appliqué, and embroidery of brightly colored fabric in striped patterns. These pieces feature a non-objective pattern of lines in a circular motif with arrow-head shaped protrusions in the corners and a more detailed composition of two birds facing each other with fish for heads. They have unfinished edges, are unsigned, and presented unframed.
Condition
- some accretion to surfaces; unfinished edges fraying; some wrinkles from storage.
Dimensions
14.75" W x 16.5" H x 0.25" D
- measures embroidery.
Item #
18BOS039-029
