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Object Number 971-14-20/23907
Display Title Mola: Four spirit heads
Descriptions
Object Description Mola: Four spirit heads
Inventory Description Mola, applique, black background, multicolored spirit head motif
Classification
  • Applique
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Cuna
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Panama / San Blas Islands / <County> / Solidad Mixia
Materials Fabric
Dimensions Overall: 49.5 x 42.5 cm (19 1/2 x 16 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 971-14-20/23907; Panama, San Blas, Cuna; SOL MIR 801B
Credit Line Gift of Dr. and Mrs. F. Louis Hoover, 1971

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