Native Name | Boubou |
Object Number | 2003-72-370 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Senegal |
Section | African |
Materials | Cotton |
Technique | Woven | Sewn | Braided |
Description | Robe made of wide strips of machine woven cloth running vertically in body area and horizontally in the sleeves; large pocket with rounded botton on front; decoration consisting of braided cotton sewn on in a curved line beginning on the pocket and going up to the neck opening and another one around the side of the neck opening; sleeves joined at bottom, also front and back of body joined. |
Length | 189 cm |
Width | 123 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1900.1.393 - Other Number | 13016 - Other Number |
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