Search Demo: Museum Collection

Explore ElasticPress' search and faceting capabilities with the catalog of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum.

You can also get more detail on specific features by clicking the ElasticPress logos () located around the page.

  • Blouse (mola) (Panama), 20th century

    Panel in reverse applique – black backing, red top layer; middle layer showing through in yellow, purple, green, blue, pink etc. On one corner, a four-petaled red flower with orange…

  • Blouse (mola) (Panama), 20th century

    Panel in reverse applique. Red backing; top layer in red; middle layer showing through in black, blue, yellow, green, pink and orange. At periphery of panel, 13 four-lobed motifs with…

  • Mola (Panama), 1960–69

    Panel of reverse appliqué with yellow backing, red top layer, and multicolored middle layer. Oval medallion in center shows standing figure at a microphone with upraised arm. At each side…

  • Mola (Panama), ca. 1965

    Mola panel in combination of appliqué and reverse appliqué with embroidery. Central motif of man riding a large bird with an animal face; surrounded by smaller figures also riding birds,…

  • Mola (Panama), late 19th century

    Mola panel of reverse appliqué in an almost symmetrical pattern; a center circle is connected to a circle in each corner with long, curving arms. A cross appears in the…

Object Type