| Native Name | Boubou |
| Object Number | 2003-72-407 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Senegal |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Cotton | Pigment |
| Technique | Woven | Sewn | Dyed |
| Description | War Cloak. A large rectangular cloak, consiting of strips of cotton woven on a narrow man's loom, sewn together; the strips in the center of the garment are vertical, those on each side are horizontal; each of the strips is decorated in brownish ink or stain with symbolic drawings and on some strips what appears to be Arabic characters; the neck is a simple rounded opening. |
| Length | 92.7 cm |
| Width | 174 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1900.1.127 - Other Number |
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