Mola depicting a Frog, Fish and Coatimundi

Unidentified Guna (Kuna) maker

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mid-20th century

Multicolor cotton cloth

Overall: 13 3/4 × 15 13/16 in. (35 × 40.2 cm)

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

177.9.25737

Geography

Place Made: Panama, Central America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Clothing: Outerwear

Research Area

Americas

Not on view

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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