Labyrinth Mola Panel
1–1960
- Medium
- Cotton; reverse appliqué, appliqué
- Dimensions
- Overall: 42 x 53 cm (16 9/16 x 20 7/8 in.)
- Genre
- garment
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Republic of Panamá, Gunayala Comarca, Guna people
About
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.