Native Name | Boubou |
Object Number | 2003-66-18 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Mali |
Section | African |
Materials | Cotton | Silk |
Technique | Woven | Undyed | Sewn | Embroidered |
Description | Robe made of 3.5 inch strips running vertically to form body and 3.5 inch strips running horizontally on sleeves; pocket with rounded bottom on front; heavily embroidered with silk on front and back with geometric and curvilinear designs; sleeves joined only at the hem, also joined only at the hem at bottom of body area. |
Height | 124.5 cm |
Width | 200.5 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1900.1.394 - Other Number |
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