Kuna Mola 1950s - Kit Kapp Collection - Double Mola- Abstract

Description

This piece is two molas that are still connected to each other. It features an abstract design that has colors in reverse of one another. This would make a great display piece is you mounted them separately side by side. Very cool design to this one. It measures 18w x 16h
The Kit Kapp Collection.
Kit Kapp was a cartographer who was hired to map the San Blas Islands in 1960. He quickly fell in love with the Kuna people and their art, and organized numerous lengthy expeditions to the islands over an 11 year period where he purchased thousands of molas and hundreds of Kuna nuchu carvings, as well as jewelry, basketry and other artifacts. In 1972 he published the seminal book
Mola Art of the San Blas Islands,
which is still one of the best reference books on the subject. Kit died in 2014. Between 1999 and 2016 we purchased the entire remainder of the Kapp Kuna collection.