Art Mola Panama Bird Cloth Hand Stitched Traditional Costume Kuna Indian Tribe

Vintage Traditional Kuna Indian Mola
Measures approx. 16" by 14".
Hand stitched.
Vibrant coloring.
Beautiful details and workmanship.
Great collectible Latin American traditional art.
Perfect for framing.
Information about the mola: The mola forms part of the traditional costume of a Kuna woman, two mola panels being incorporated as front and back panels in a blouse. The full costume traditionally includes a patterned wrapped skirt (saburet), a red and yellow headscarf (musue), arm and leg beads (wini), a gold nose ring (olasu) and earrings in addition to the mola blouse (dulemor). In Dulegaya, the Kuna's native language, "mola" means "shirt" or "clothing". The mola originated with the tradition of Kuna women painting their bodies with geometrical designs, using available natural colours; in later years these same designs were woven in cotton, and later still, sewn using cloth bought from the European settlers of Panamá.
Development of the style: Molas have their origin in body pai