- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Mola panel with three layers, polychrome design featuring a large crab and four smaller beasts. [El.B 25/10/2011]
- Geographical reference
- San Blas Islands Carti Yantupo Island
- 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 Embroidered, Process Woven
- Dimensions
- Length: max 560 mm, Width: max 420 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1987.30.7
- Research and responses
By comparison with a mola in the Hoover Collection at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Inst. (No. 420395), this piece could be from Carti Yantupo. LM.
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