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Aug 25, 2021
Aug 25, 2021
Labyrinth Mola Panel
Labyrinth Mola Panel
before 1960
Cotton; reverse appliqué, appliqué
Overall: 42 x 53 cm (16 9/16 x 20 7/8 in.)
Gift of Howard A. Aronson 2021.153
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Panels like this one originally were sewn into blouses known as molas.
Description
This Labyrinth Mola Panel is executed in one of the most prestigious of Guna mola-making techniques. Known as bisu-bisu, it is a geometric maze of evenly spaced lines that create winding paths across the surface and visually dissolve the divide between figure and ground.
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