Resources – Bibliography and Links of Interests
Kuna Art Guna Art – The Remarkable Creations of a Central American Indigenous Culture Hardcover – Picture Book, January 1, 2026
by Thomas Hannaher (Author), Briseida Iglesias (Author), Cebaldo de Leon (Author), Agar Tejada (Author), Charles Arias (Author)
“Guna Art is a stunningly beautiful book…an enduring resource for anyone seeking to understand the power of a culture deeply rooted in natural wisdom.” – Jane Goodall, Ph.D.
“This beautiful book is a tribute to one of the most remarkable artistic expressions of the Americas.” – Anthropologist Wade Davis, Ph.D.
The Art of Being Kuna – Layers of Meaning Among the Kuna of Panama by by Mari Lyn Salvador and Los Angeles Fowler Museum of Cultural History University of California
Kuna Ways of Speaking – An Ethnographic Perspective by Joel Sherzer
Molas: Folk Art of the Cuna Indians Hardcover – by Ann Parker (Author), Avon Neal (Author)
Chiefs, Scribes, and Ethnographers: Kuna Culture from Inside and Out Hardcover – November 15, 2009 by James Howe (Author)
Fashioning Identity: Mola Textiles of Panamá
Andrea Vazquez de Arthur
October 8, 2020
The Kuna Mola
Dress, Politics and Cultural
Survival
Diana Marks
Magnificent Molas The Art of the Kuna Indians
by Michel Perrin
Translated from the French by Deke Dusinberre
Flammarion, 2000
KUNA Art and Shamanism An Ethnographic Approach
by Paolo Fortis
University of Texas Press, 2012
Cunas Panamanian Indians
Deutsch, English, Francais, Español
by Christian Hansen
Chart Hong Booka, Hong Kong, 1983
About Molas
Hablando de Molas
by Enrique Chavas, Linnea Angermuller
Florida State University
Isthmian Anthropology Society, 1969
Enrique Chavas, Luz Graciela Joly, Translators
Siabibi’s San Blas An Illustrated Notebook
by John Mann
Siabibi S.A., 1975
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Links to Interesting Sites
The Mola: Traditional Kuna Textile Art: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064300555294
The Mola Museum: molamuseum.org (Thomas Hannaher)
University of Florida Mola Collection: https://ufdc.ufl.edu/results?filter=type:Mola
Appropriating the Mola: Forms of Borrowing by Textile Artists
Diana Marks https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/20511787.2015.1211379
From Part to Whole: Developing an Appreciation of Kuna Molas as Collectibles
Diana Marks https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14759756.2015.1045196
The Evolution of the Kuna Mola: From Cultural Authentication to Cultural Survival by Diana Marks https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/32238595.pdf
University of Connecticut, The William Bentorn Museum of Art https://benton.uconn.edu/the-molas-collection-guide
University of Maine, The Hudson Museum, The Molas Collection: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/molas/
Molas, the Jane Gruver Collection, University of Maine (Note – 244 mb PDF download): https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=molas
Kuna Mola Tradition: The Jane Gruver Collection, University of Maine (Note – 22 mb PDF download)
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=molas
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Fashioning Identity: Mola Textiles of Panamá: https://www.clevelandart.org/exhibitions/fashioning-identity-mola-textiles-panama
Museo de la Mola: https://museodelamola.org/en
International Quilt Museum: https://www.internationalquiltmuseum.org/about/quilt-month/mola
University of Oregon: Museum of Natural and Cultural History: https://mnch.uoregon.edu/collections-galleries/kuna-molas
Textile Museum Associates of Southern California https://www.tmasc.org/default.htm
The Dallas Museum of Art Uncrated, Panamanian Molas: Made For and By Women
https://blog.dma.org/?s=molas
Carla Brusa: Molasart, un cameo delle tradizioni dei Guna, https://www.tuttifiglidigiotto.it/2022/09/12/molasart-un-cameo-delle-tradizioni-dei-guna/
Fukimo Nakayama: Creative Nudge – The Molas of Fumiko Nakayama, https://www.equilter.com/blog/creative-nudge-molas-fumiko-nakayama/
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