Native Name | Boubou |
Object Number | 2003-72-406 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Senegal |
Section | African |
Materials | Cotton | Paper | Pigment |
Technique | Woven | Dyed | Sewn |
Inscription Language | Arabic Language |
Description | War dress. Rectangular cloth woven in a single width of undyed cotton with Arabic writing in ink covering one side; amulets (67) made of undyed or balck cotton sewn around paper sewn over the Arabic wiritng; long narrow cotton ties sewn to all four corner. Paper tag reads: "War dress with verse from the Koran and amulets. Supposed to protect the wearer in battle. |
Length | 200.6 cm |
Width | 73 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1900.1.457 - Other Number |
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