The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 24, 2025
Medicine Men Curing the Sick Mola Panel
c. 1960–1965
Overall: 37 x 45.7 cm (14 9/16 x 18 in.)
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. F. Louis Hoover 1971.212
Location: Not on view
Description
As in many places, concerns with sickness and healing feature prominently in Guna society. Traditional healing methods require the intervention of trained medicine men and their tools. This panel may depict a pair of medicine men holding nuchus, carved wood figures activated by incantations and used to cure any number of ailments.- Fashioning Identity: Mola Textiles of Panamá. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 2020-January 9, 2022).Year in Review: 1971. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1971-February 6, 1972).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1971.212