“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.
Hidden for more than forty years in a Florida storage unit, one of the world’s largest collections of early Kuna (Guna) art – over 2,500 mola textiles, nuchu figures, staffs, and drawings – was discoveed following the passing of collector Kit Kapp.Kuna Art Guna Art brings this archive to light.
Featuring over 300 never-before-published examples from the collections of Kit Kapp and Tom Hannaher, the book’s high-resolution images reveal the creativity and worldview of the Guna people of Panama.
Co-authored by Tom Hannaher with 48 Guna knowledge-keepers, the volume includes essays by Guna anthropologist Cebaldo Inawinapi and historian Briseida Iglesias.
This groundbreaking publication offers an authoritative, community-supported window into one of the most vibrant art traditions of the Americas. The net proceeds from the sale of the book support the repatriation of indigenous art to Panama by Geoversity Foundation.
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“What you have here is more than a book. It’s a passage on a journey of regeneration, reconnecting with the ancestral knowledge of an indigenous people. Right now in Panama young Guna leaders and elders are drawing from these pages to preserve and share a legacy of wisdom, communal practices, and cultural expressions. We invite you—during this year of the 100th anniversary of the Guna revolution—to join us in advancing the next century of biocultural renewal.”
—Nathan Gray, President, Geoversity, Nature’s University