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Pitt Rivers Museum

1987.30.6

Mola with bird pattern


1987.30.6

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Collection type
Object
Description
Mola with bird pattern
Geographical reference
San Blas Islands
Cultural groups
Guna
Person
Field collector Kit S. Kapp
PRM source David Bannister
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]

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