Cleveland Museum of Art

Labyrinth Mola Panel

Date

before 1960

Medium

Cotton; reverse appliqué, appliqué

Culture

Republic of Panamá, Gunayala Comarca, Guna people

Department

Textiles

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This Labyrinth Mola Panel is executed in one of the most prestigious of Guna mola-making techniques. Known as bisu-bisu , 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. Panels like this one originally were sewn into blouses known as molas.

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