Mola

Textiles

1960s

Guna
Achutupo, Guna Yala, Panama

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Guna
Title: Mola
Place: Achutupo (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, plain weaves; appliqué and reverse appliqué; embroidered with cotton in running and buttonhole stitches
Dimensions: 34.9 × 51.1 cm (13 3/4 × 20 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of F. Louis Hoover
Reference Number: 1970.352

Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas rotation, Gallery 136, Nov. 13, 2024-Jul. 30, 2025.

F. Louis Hoover and Lucille Hoover, Normal, IL, by Feb. 22, 1970 [letter from donor, Feb. 22, 1970; incoming receipt RX7420, Mar. 24, 1970; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1970.

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