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Mola Panel with Piggyback Animal and Bird
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Mola Panel with Piggyback Animal and Bird

Maker Unknown, Kuna
Date1970s
MediumCloth
Dimensions8 3/4” H x 11 1/2” W
SignedNone
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object numberNLA2011.07.LMA
DescriptionMolita (small mola blouse panel) probably for a child of three full layers of cloth in yellow, red, and blue and additional interleaved cloth for a multicolored reverse appliqué image of an animal with bird on its back, both of them double outlined in blue with a wide yellow band between. The faces of the bird and animal are embroidered with small multicolored running stitches.
ClassificationsTextiles
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