Native Name | Boubou |
Object Number | 2003-66-19 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Mali |
Section | African |
Materials | Cotton | Silk |
Technique | Woven | Undyed | Sewn | Embroidered | Crocheted |
Description | Robe made of 3.5 inch strips running vertically in body and horizontally in sleeves of robe; pocket on front; front and back heavily decorated with silk embroidery and lace insets in geometric and rectilinear designs; seam at bottom of side panels to create sleeves; also front and back of body joined below sleeves. |
Height | 125.8 cm |
Width | 197 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1900.1.395 - Other Number |
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