Robe
Textile
2003-70-65
Location: On Display in the Africa Galleries
From: Nigeria
Curatorial Section: African
| Native Name | Boubou |
| Object Number | 2003-70-65 |
| Current Location | Africa Galleries - On Display |
| Provenience | Nigeria |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Cotton | Pigment |
| Technique | Woven | Dyed | Sewn | Embroidered |
| Description | Robe made of 2 3/8 strips woven of undyed cotton; in the body area the strips run vertically and have been folded so they are half as wide; the strips in the sleeves run horizontally; rectangular pocket on the front; embroidered with geometric and curvilinear designs on the front and back; seam at bottom of sleeves and joining front and back of body at the bottom; bottom lined with cloth with purple, black, blue, and white stripes. North Nigeria. |
| Height | 120.6 cm |
| Width | 248.8 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1914.1.11 - Other Number |
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