- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Mola with bird pattern
- Geographical reference
- San Blas Islands
- Cultural groups
- Guna
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1987
- Date collected
- By 1987
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1987
- Materials and processes
- Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Process Stitched, Process Appliqué, Process Woven
- Dimensions
- Height: max 380 mm, Width: max 500 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1987.30.6
- Associated publications
- Illustrated in colour on page 23 of The Pitt Rivers Museum: An Introduction (Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, 2009), pp. 21-23. Caption (on page 22) reads: 'a blouse panel (mola), from the San Blas Islands, Panama'. [JC 27 8 2009] Illustrated in colour on page 22 of the Turkish journal Pev ve Sanat, Issue 46, 2007. [MOBB 13/11/2018] Illustrated in colour (PRM image PRM000064873) on page 22 of 'Treasured Textiles: Cloth and Clothing around the World', by Julia Nicholson, in Journal for Weavers, Spinners and Dyers, no. 219 (Setpember 2006), pp. 21-23 [JC 18 10 2019]
1987.30.6
Mola with bird pattern
1987.30.6
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