FINE MOLA BLOUSE ART VIBRANT KUNA HANDSEWN CAT LION ANIMAL TEXTILE PANAMA ETHNIX

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KUNA BLOUSE PANEL HAND SEWN VIBRANT CAT LION ANIMAL MOTIF WOMEN ARTType of Object: MOLA ARTEthnic Group: KUNACountry of Origin: PANAMA (KUNA YALA)Materials: APPLIQUED COTTON FABRIC PANELApproximate Age: 10 + yearsDimensions: 16.0" by 12.5 "Weight: 57.0 grams; 2.0 oz; 0.13 lbs;Overall Condition: Very GoodSale of molas, nuchus and other arts help the kuna Indians in promoting and maintaining their cultural and ethnic identity. David's passion is to visit them often.This extraordinary mola mask was purchased on the island Naranjo Grande from one of the islands of the Carti group of Kuna Yala (San Blas Islands, Panama). This mola mask was just purchased in January of 2015The focus of this trip was to look for the older seredi , pre 1950's molas and wooden healing figures or dolls called nuchus. I did however make some exceptions and bought only a few of the more recent molas when they exhibited a balance of extraordinary, quality, motif and color or imagination. This was one of them. The artistry of a mola reflects designs from both traditional Kuna culture and design influences from the external mass media world. Mola designs are often inspired from imagination and from modern graphics such as political posters, labels, pictures from books, etc. Geometric molas which are the most traditional, have been developed from ancient body painting designs and have their origins in Pre-Columbian times. Molas are a source of supplemental income for Kuna women and a source of pride and skill which helps to reinforce Kuna ethnic identity.Additional Background Information:I began my fieldwork and ethnographic studies in Kuna Yala in 1979 and have been steadily travelling back there ever since. Every Mola featured in the Ethnix gallery has been directly collected from one of these very special journeys.Import duties, taxes and charges are not included in the item price or shipping cost. These charges are the buyer's responsibility. Please check with your country's custom office to determine what these additional costs will be prior to bidding or buying.The roots of EthnixAs ETHNIX has become an established physical entity on Broadway in the heart of Manhattan, its origin had its inspiration from the Secret Museum of Mankind, which was an anonymous collection of ethnographic and risque images of earths inhabitants throughout the four corners of the earth published by Manhattan house in the 1930′s. This fascination in my youth cast the die for my future worldwide travels and ethnix was to become the funding source for research and the collection of artifacts. As one reviewer described the book... The Secret Museum of Mankind reveals a lost world-and -the fading faces of the indigenous humanity that once covered the globe. Adventurer transport the reader to another era. The native cultures of America, Africa, Asia, Europe, and the islands of the seas were so fascinating as they existed upon the book's first publication nearly a century ago. Here revealed, by a thousand black-and-white photographs with captions that reflect the unabashed curiosity and marked sensationalism of the early-twentieth-century are the astonishing variety of rituals, religions, customs, physical decorations, and dress of the world's native cultures, the elaborate costuming, the intricate painstaking bodily manipulations, the fascinating practices of he cultures whose native expressions and lifestyles have unfortunately suffered the destructive advancing hands of the twentieth century. read more

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