Blouse (mola blouse); front and back mola panels have varicolored leaf-like designs on black ground in cotton with some chain stitch embroidery; pink satin sleeves and yoke; tas tas filler; morgonikat type mola; with across sleeves 72 cm., 1.49 cm. Native name and meaning: mora are applique panels. Materials, techniques: cotton, rayon satin; chainstitch; tas tas: short parallel slits made in the top layer which is stitched to small patched of different colors which have been put between the first and second layers (short parallel fill); morganikat: three full layers of applique with multicolored fill. Context of use: blouse worn with headscarf, underskirt, and wraparound skirt.
Donor:
Mari Lyn Salvador
Collection place:
Istupo Island, San Blas Islands, Panama
Culture or time period:
Kuna
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Molas
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Loans:
S1981-1982 #59: University of California, Davis/Pat Charley (April 14, 1982–June 21, 1982)