Blouse
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1978
label: Collection Date
content: 1921
name: label: Collector
content: Gilbert S. Tower
label: Donor Name
content: Nancy Tower
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Short sleeved pullover, short yolk of large checkered green and white thin wool. Body of stitched patchwork designs - llama head and birds plus much geometric, in red, black and yellow which is quite faded and black deteriorated." Per Diana Marks, October 2010, part of the mola designs are based on the Panamanian coat of arms.
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 5, p. 25 in Marks, Diana, 2014, "The Kuna Mola: Dress, Politics and Cultural Survival," Dress (The Journal of the Costume Society of America) 40(1):17-30, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/0361211214Z.00000000021. Identified there: "Example of mola blouse collected prior to 1925 compared to Panamanian coat of arms. The Panamanian coat of arms appears on Panamanian coins. In this mola the symbols in the four quarters of the crest have been rearranged." Also on p. 25: "The Panamanian coat of arms, possibly copied from Panamanian coins, is shown on both sides of a mola blouse, with the front of the blouse showing the central four objects on the shield in different positions from the coat of arms …. On the back of this blouse, these objects are more abstract. This mola suggests support for Panama at a time when different Kuna communities supported either Panama or Colombia."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: San Blas Islands, Panama, Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: San Blas Kuna (Guna)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 327937
label: USNM Number
content: E418531-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blouse