Mola

Textiles

1960/69

Guna
Achutupo, Guna Yala, Panama

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Guna
Title: Mola
Place: Guna Yala (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1960–1969
Medium: Cotton, rayon, plain weaves, plain weave with supplementary wefts forming cut pile; appliqué and reverse appliqué; embroidered wuth cotton in chain stitch
Dimensions: 52.3 × 54.5 cm (20 5/8 × 21 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of F. Louis Hoover
Reference Number: 1969.846

F. Louis Hoover and Lucille Hoover, Normal, IL, from between 1964 to 1969 [acquired in Panama, according to letter from donor, Dec. 17, 1969; incoming receipt, RX7295, Dec. 23, 1969; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the the Art Institute of Chicago, 1969.

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