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Panama Canal Centennial Celebration — August 15-17, 2014
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’s year-long celebration of the Panama Canal Centennial in 2014 will culminate with a weekend of events August 15-17, including a presentation at the Harn Museum of Art about molas like this one. Mola making is a reverse appliqué technique developed in the early 20th century by women living in island communities along the Caribbean coast of Panama. The UF Panama Canal Museum Collection contains more than 1,200 molas depicting such things as this bird grasping a branch, jungle cats, two-headed horses, the Garden of Eden and the seal of the United States.