Miscellaneous Tribal Arts - Galeria Namu

Kuna (Guna) tribe - Traditional women's 'mola' blouse

Code: MITA035 Size: Small/'petite' woman's blouse Many people who have travelled around southern Central America and Colombia (and indeed, many US citizens who have had family ties, historically, to residents of the Panama Canal Zone before it was handed back to Panama in 1999) will surely have seen the Kuna women's stunning decorative panels that are sewn into their traditional blouses. However, it is harder to find and purchase the whole 'mola' blouse itself. This dazzling traditional indigenous woman's blouse is truly a wearable art masterpiece! These blouses are such works of art that many collectors mount such blouses for display, as one would with a tapestry, mounted on a wall. Such traditional Kuna blouses have as their basic design two 'molas' sewn on them - one panel on the front and another panel on the back.