Mola depicting John F. Kennedy

Unidentified Guna (Kuna) maker

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1960s

Multicolor cotton cloth, with embroidery

Overall: 17 × 19 1/2 in. (43.2 × 49.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: The Alice Cox Collection, Class of 1939hW

177.9.25728

Geography

Place Made: Panama, Central America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Clothing: Outerwear

Research Area

Americas

Not on view

Exhibition History

A Space for Dialogue 4, Creating Under Pressure: Artistic Brilliance as a Symbol of Cultural Resilience, Kimberly Soderstrom, Class of 2002, Class of 1954 Hood Museum of Art Public Relations Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 9-April 14, 2002.

Dressing Up Culture: Molas from Kuna Yala, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 17-December 7, 2008.

Provenance

Collected by Alice Macy Ray Cox (1891-1975) (widow of Dartmouth English Professor Sidney Hayes Cox, 1889-1952), in Panama; given to her daughter, Barbara Alden Cox Vallarino (Mrs. Joaquin Jose Vallarino Jr., Dartmouth Class of 1943W); given to present collection, 1977.

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