Mola depicting a Butterfly
Unidentified Guna (Kuna) maker
mid-20th century
Multicolor cotton cloth
Overall: 15 7/8 × 21 3/16 in. (40.3 × 53.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: The Alice Cox Collection, Class of 1939hW
177.9.25735
Geography
Place Made: Panama, Central America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Clothing: Outerwear
Research Area
Americas
Not on view
Exhibition History
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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