Object Details
- Description
- Man's prestige robe; wool hand embroidered on cotton.
- Provenance
- Collected by the donor's parents, Jacob A. Reis, DD, and Eleanor N. Reis, RN, between 1908 and 1933 in the vincinity of Bafia mission station, Cameroon.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of African Art
- Maker
- Hausa artist
- Date
- Early to mid-20th century
- Credit Line
- Gift from the Collection of Jacob A. Reis, DD, and Eleanor N. Reis, R.N.
- Medium
- Cotton, wool
- Dimensions
- H x W: 127 x 279.4 cm (50 x 110 in.)
- Type
- Textile and Fiber Arts
