Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Mola (Panama)

  Oblong panel of brilliant colored cottons, arranged in form of cut-out and applied techniques to show what appear to be highly stylized bird forms. Outlines of design are cut. Colors…

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  Jug

  Olive Green glass

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  Jug

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  Jug, early 16th century

  Bulbous body on spreading foot, strait neck with two moldings, strap handle. Body decorated with applied serpentine branch and stamped leaves and berries. On neck, stamped lozenge motifs. Surface partly…

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  Ornament (Panama), possibly 5th century

  Pre-Columbian pendant.

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  Necklace (Panama), 500–800

  Small gold beads, cast, in different shapes and sizes.

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  Blouse (Panama), 20th century

  On a backing of black cotton, cut-out cottons with red predominating, outline large chunky bird with tree, and scattered angular shapes. This forms body of blouse and is sewn on…

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  Blouse (mola) (Panama), 20th century

  Woman’s blouse with cut-out cottons in many colors, with red predominating, stitched in reverse-appliqué technique to make a design of long-beaked birds within a labyrinth of abstract shapes. This forms…

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  Mola (Panama), 20th century

  Crude cut-out shapes in red, buff, blue, orange, etc. applied to black backing which shows through to form outlines. Coarse cotton.

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  Jug, 1550–80

  Cylindrical, with cut slab handle running top to bottom on one side. Large all-over diamond-shaped motifs repeat around middle, narrow patterned bands at top and bottom. Buff clay with overglaze,…