The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 18, 2025

Mola Panel

early 1900s

Republic of Panamá, Gunayala Comarca, Guna people

cotton: reverse appliqué
Overall: 50.8 x 68.6 cm (20 x 27 in.)
Gift of Dorothy Bulkley 1958.218
Location: Not on view
  • Vazquez de Arthur, Andrea. Fashioning identity: Mola textiles of Panamá = modelar la identidad : textiles Mola de Panamá / Andrea Vazquez de Arthur. 2020. Mentioned: pp. 10-11; Reproduced: p. 11
    De Arthur, Andrea Vazquez. “Fashioning Identity: Native tradition meets artistic innovation in the mola textiles of Guna women.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 60, no. 4 (Fall 2020): Cover, 10-11. Reproduced: Cover; Mentioned: P. 10-11.
  • Fashioning Identity: Mola Textiles of Panamá. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 2020-January 9, 2022).
    Molas: Tribal Signature of the Cuna Indians. Beck Center for the Arts, Lakewood, OH (July 7-August 28, 1983).
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