Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Beaker (Sweden), 1760

  Tall flaring body with punched lambrequin motif above engraved shell and scroll band and initials E.H.S. Wavy relief band at top and bottom. Flaring gadrooned foot, with traces of gilding.…

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  Beaker (Sweden), ca. 1946

  Straight, flaring body on flaring foot. Royal blue tone on edge and inside bottom, fading out toward middle. Encased decoration of gray semicircles, bell flowers and dots.

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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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  Beaker (Peru), 400–600

  Concave, flaring sides, and flat bottom. Body covered in white slip and painted with large face of snake with bat headdress, and horizontally displayed body with spiny, curling tail.

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  Beaker, ca. 1700–25

  Four Continents

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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.