Man's Robe
Artist
Unknown African
CultureDida peoples
Titles
- Man's Robe
Date1900–1910
Made inIvory Coast, Africa
MediumResist-dyed raffia
DimensionsOverall: 59 1/16 × 70 7/8 in. (150 × 180 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by The Merrin Gallery, Ann and Paul Petrutsas, Frank Carroll, and Ellen Luby, and by exchange, Mrs. John P. Bullington
Object number2013.66
Not on view
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Department
African ArtObject Type
Published References John Gillow, "African Textiles (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2003), p.67 John Gillow, Printed and Dyed Textiles from Africa (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001), fig.32
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Unknown African
c. 1900
Raffia, cotton cloth, cowry shells, and glass beads
2022.110
Unknown African
1900–1940
Glass and jasper beads, cotton cloth, raffia cloth, cane, and iron
98.240
Unknown African
1895–1905
Raffia, cotton cloth, cowry shells, glass beads, and brass bells
92.451
Unknown Indian
c. 1635
Cotton, hand-painted, mordant-dyed, and resist-dyed (kalamkari)
2025.965
Unknown Indian
18th century
Cotton (plain weave), hand-drawn, mordant-dyed and resist-dyed
2024.516
Unknown Indian
late 18th–mid- 19th century
Cotton; plain weave, mordant painted and dyed, resist-dyed
B.61.47