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This photo was shared to a FB group to which I belong by the father in the photo. He is Cuna, Kuna or Guna, for which spelling varies and indigenous to Panama. As you can see, the children are garbed in multilayered and colorful Molas which are used for that purpose by women and kids. Molas are also made for sale to tourists. I have a small collection from my twenty years in Panama and some I inherited from my maternal grandmother who lived and worked there, along with my grandfather. My mother's family lived in the Canal Zone from 1940 to1971, and my mother was a teacher there from 1963-1979. She lived there from the age of two and her brother and sister were born there. I arrived there in 1959 as a four-month-old with her after the ill-fated first marriage fell apart, and spent my childhood there. I do not have a lot of photos or the ability to take more at this point. All of these with the exception of the family photo above have been previously posted. There are several books and more information on the Web about the several indigenous tribes of Panama as well the use and variety of Guna  Molas. My grandmother's were made for tourists and sold as individual panels which she pinned up together on one wall in her home.