Native Name | Boubou |
Object Number | 2003-66-28 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Mali |
Section | African |
Materials | Cotton | Leather | Raphia |
Technique | Woven | Dyed | Sewn | Braided |
Description | Robe made of four inch (10cm) strips running vertically; piece dyed brown; diamond shaped pocket sewn on inside of robe with opening on front; five amulets sewn on front, three amulets sewn on back; amulets made of leather covered with red cloth, with a border of braided raphia. |
Length | 71.8 cm |
Width | 91.5 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1900.1.405 - Other Number |
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