Woman's Applique Garment
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Apr 1911
label: Collection Date
content: 1906
name: label: Collector
content: Mrs. Eleanor Y. Bell
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Eleanor Y. Bell
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "RED FABRIC, CRAZY-QUILT PATTERN. 'MOLA', WOMAN'S GARMENT. APPLIQUE WORK." FRONT AND BACK OF THIS MOLA BLOUSE ARE ILLUS. IN PL. 6.42 AND 6.43, P. 167 OF THE ART OF BEING KUNA, ED. MARI LYN SALVADOR, UCLA FOWLER MUSEUM OF CULTURAL HISTORY, 1997, WHERE MOLA DESIGN IS IDENTIFIED AS GEOMETRIC PATTERN. Illustrated Pl. 26, No. 2, after p. 133, in "Material Culture of the People of Southeastern Panama, Based on Specimens in the United States National Museum," by Herbert W. Krieger, USNM Bulletin 134, 1926.
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 87 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Panama Indians".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Feb 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Cidra Island, San Blas Gulf, Panama, Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kuna (Guna)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 052672
label: USNM Number
content: E263359-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blouse
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 68 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 69 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 66 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 71 cm