Native Name | Boubou |
Object Number | 2003-63-155 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Liberia |
Section | African |
Materials | Cotton | Pigment |
Technique | Woven | Dyed |
Description | Sleeveless robe made of 9cm strips of undyed cotton with blue warp stripes and occasional weft stripes running vertically; piece dyed with indigo creating a pattern of light and dark blue stripes; pocket on front made from another type of cloth with brown, white and blue stripes before piece with dyed indigo; braided cord around neck opening; sides joined at bottom. |
Height | 113.5 cm |
Width | 131.5 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1894.1.33 - Other Number |
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