Mola depicting a Frog, Fish and Coatimundi
Unidentified Guna (Kuna) maker
mid-20th century
Multicolor cotton cloth
Overall: 13 3/4 × 15 13/16 in. (35 × 40.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: The Alice Cox Collection, Class of 1939hW
177.9.25737
Geography
Place Made: Panama, Central America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Clothing: Outerwear
Research Area
Americas
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Alice Macy Ray Cox (1891-1975) (widow of Dartmouth English Professor Sidney Hayes Cox, 1889-1952), in Panama; given to her daughter, Barbara Alden Cox Vallarino (Mrs. Joaquin Jose Vallarino Jr., Dartmouth Class of 1943W); given to present collection, 1977.
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