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Labyrinth Mola Panel
before 1960
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
This <em>Labyrinth Mola Panel </em>is executed in one of the most prestigious of Guna mola-making techniques. Known as <em>bisu-bisu</em>, it is a geometric maze of evenly spaced lines that create winding paths across the surface and visually dissolve the divide between figure and ground.
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Details
- Title: Labyrinth Mola Panel
- Date Created: before 1960
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 42 x 53 cm (16 9/16 x 20 7/8 in.)
- Provenance: Marjorie Tomchuk, New Canaan, CT, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Garment
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.153
- Medium: Cotton; reverse appliqué, appliqué
- Fun Fact: Panels like this one originally were sewn into blouses known as molas.
- Department: Textiles
- Culture: Republic of Panamá, Gunayala Comarca, Guna people
- Credit Line: Gift of Howard A. Aronson
- Collection: Textiles
- Accession Number: 2021.153
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