Bidspirit auction | Guna Mola Panel Paired Spirit

Guna Mola Panel Paired Spirit Figures with Central Animal Form - Panama (Guna Yala), circa 1960s–1970s 13 × 15 inches Reverse appliqué, appliqué, and hand-embroidered mola panel featuring two elaborately worked spirit figures in the upper corners, each with a tiered headdress in multicolor stripes and a body banded with polychrome square and arch motifs, flanking a small red and teal animal figure at center, worked in three layers on a black cotton ground. Grids of polychrome appliquéd squares with dot centers fill the lateral registers, while scattered branch and coral stitch embroidery animates the open ground throughout. A dynamic and iconographically complex composition. Provenance: From the Parker & Neal Collection.