Our destination this week is the San Blas Archipelago off the Caribbean Coast of Panama, where unknown textile artists from the indigenous Kuna people created two reverse applique stitched images of the Crucifixion, recently acquired by the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection. These multi-layered, cut-out, and embroidered cloth panels, known as molas, were originally made to decorate blouses. They could not be more different in style! The mola showing Christ on the Cross with Mary, John, and the Centurion is a mosaic-like masterpiece of neatly-edged colored triangles and stripes, embroidered on a crimson background in a traditional manner. The second cloth art piece with three crosses (above) is a bold, abstract study on black with a shockingly green Jesus. The two new textile art pieces of the Crucifixion join three others in the image gallery of the Molas of the Kuna People page in the Schools of Sacred Art section. (John Kohan)