Native Name | Boubou |
Object Number | 2003-70-64 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Nigeria |
Section | African |
Materials | Cotton | Pigment |
Technique | Woven | Dyed | Sewn | Embroidered |
Description | Robe made of 4.5 inch strips woven of dark blue cotton with white warp and weft stripes; strips run vertically in body and horizontally on sleeves; rectangular pocket on front; embroidered with geometric and curvilinear designs; seams under arms and hem along botton sewn in a different color thread than the rest of the robe; sides not joined. Yarn dyed. |
Height | 121 cm |
Width | 234.2 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1900.1.451 - Other Number |
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