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Hearst Museum object titled Mola, accession number 3-30186a,b, described as Molas, matched pair; a) 38 cm x53.5 cm.colors; main background and top layer is red; other layers are purple,blue, green, pink, yellow, orange; central motif creatures sharing a central head. and curled tentacle arms and legs attached (mirror image); filler of small circles b) 54 cm x 38.5 cm. Central motif same as a) with slight variations.
Hearst Museum object titled Mola, accession number 3-30182, described as Mola blouse; Blouse; yoke 45 cm w. x 10 cm. red velvet, pleated at neck center, back and front. Neck and shoulder trim; 3 cm w. split at neck into 2 pieces by 12 cm . from sleeve; black w/ narrow gold band below. neckband 1 1/4 cm red cotton encasing draw strings; sleeves 21 cm at bodice, 12 cm. at cuff, 14.5 cm long, pleated at shoulder and cuff; cuff,1.5 cm black, topped w/ white rick rack. connecting trim to mola, 2.5 cm band ;black, red, and orangedtopped by yellow rick rack. Lower trim to mola: 2.5 cm green band. Mola; 45 cm w x 37 cm. l.; main design motif a large feline (jaguar?), body in profile and face front w/ tongue tongue hanging down. 14 appliqued spots; two baby felines, a fish (shark?) two starrfish, two pointed bottom jugs and bottle surround central figure. faces of felines embroidered , except for eyes, nose and mouth of large central feline. fill on and around the large feline mostly in solid colors of red, blue, yellow, orange, pink, green and white. White fill used on paws, some printed fill. Color layers are blak, orange and red on figures and red for outlines around figures.
Hearst Museum object titled Mola, accession number 3-30177, described as Mola blouse. Blouse; Yoke; 3.9 cm x 8.5 cm synthetic yellow fabric with dark red band trim below neckband 2.5 cm . w. w/ black edge .3 cm. ;band etxends across upper yoke but is interrupted by 6 cm pleated area on the yolk (both sides)purple cotton neck band 1.8 cm encases a gathering cord; at bottom of yoke; red cotton band 1.7cm h. w/ green mahine made ; black adn yellow narrow under the red band,aout .5. cm w. Sleeves; yellow synthetic fabric 16 cm l. x 20.5 w, tapering and pleated into a black cotton band 1.5 cm w. w/ red machine made rick rack centered and narrow green cotton band .4 cm. 10.5 cm w. at sleeve opening at cuff. Black commercial rick rack delineates line between sleeve and yoke. Mola (back) 3 layers w/ additional piecing 43.2 cm w .x 37 cm. l. Bottom edge encased in 2.7 cm. w. yellow cotton fabric ;3 layers; black is bottom layer pieced center layer (green, yellow, purple, orange, blue, white, pinkand severa l printed pieces), dark red top layer, all cotton; central mofif ,very large lizard (?) w/ v shapes; smaller bird attached or riding on its back; some crude embroidery on heads, tail, and wings of animals. Animals surrounded by abstract appliqued forms, including 5 maltese crosses, and letter-like (?) shapes . Front mola; lizard type animal w/ bird atop it surrounded by maltese crosses in squares and other irregular shaped appliques; multi-colored crude stitching on animal faces; swastika shape on bird tail.
Hearst Museum object titled Mola, accession number 3-30324, no description available.
Hearst Museum object titled Mola, accession number 3-30205, described as Mola, 50 x 42 cm; Large central motif is cat-like figure w/ large feathered tail; smaller bird motifs found in each quadrant; large fill like abstract letters; smaller fill included; top layer red, yellow, black, purple, orange, blue, green, pink, gold white.
Hearst Museum object titled Mola, accession number 3-30202, described as Mola; 52 x 46 cm;motifs: 2 monkeys by fountain (?) topped by small cross; dome-like architectural element with flag on top surrounds central figures; each corner contains creature; birds on top, monkeys on bottom;leaf motif fills sides; fill small dots and triangles; red top layer, black, off white, green, orange, blue and pink. see 3-30199 probable pair.
Hearst Museum object titled Mola, accession number 3-30203, described as Mola; 49.5 x 39.5 cm; two human figures in costumes resembling British Beefeaters; left hand of each is raised, holding star-like form. right hand of each holds small bag; small human figure at center bottom; small flower-like form at center top with a 4-pointed star on the top in the other; fill rectangular . Note that large human figures contain fill of applique finger like shapes. Red predominate with pink, orange, yellow, white, blue, green, black and purple.
Hearst Museum object titled Mola, accession number 3-30189, described as Molas, pair sewn together at edge; 107.5 cm x 42 cm.; matching panels with reversed colors; left panel has black background and red figures; right panel has red background (made of two pieces sewn together horizontally) and black figures. outline colors are orange and yellow and are also reversed in position from panel to panel; other colors include orange, yellow, pink, green, purple, printed cotton. each panel has two, large anthropomorphic forms with extended arms and legs enclosing smaller motifs and four fish or shark forms, two at center of panel and on each edge. flower forms above ; narrow strips of orange sawtoothing cloth are sewn along top edges.
Hearst Museum object titled Mola, accession number 3-30198, described as Mola; 48 x 42 cm.; red, green, black, orange, yellow, blue, printed fabric, pink, purple; white and yellow commercial rickrack, multicolored embroidery; central motif, flying fish with antenna-like projections w/ nautical motifs on back; background motifs, motor launch with two fisherman and dog, two abstract forms, and a fish; fill, small squares.
Hearst Museum object titled Mola, accession number 3-30188a,b, described as Molas, matched pair; a) 54.5 cm x 38 cm. Four layers black, then orange and red, bottom layer is royal blue; additional colors used in appliqued fill.; Upper edge trim: bands of red, orange and pink and hand-made sawtooth in black over lime; two long eel-like creatures form the main design motifs; smaller abstract motifs and crosses are positioned between the horizontal eels; vertical slits used as fill; each slit is itself filled with a color: purple, yellow, white, blue, green pink, black, and printed fabric. b) similar to a) except heads and tails of creatures reverse directions; also slight color variations in the fil.l

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