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Man's robe (riga)

1940s
Medium/TechniqueCotton plain weave (strip-woven) embroidered with cotton
DimensionsHeight x width: 127.6 x 288.9 cm (50 1/4 x 113 3/4 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Alan and Suzanne Dworsky, Jeremy and Hanne Grantham and Jane Pappalardo
Accession number2015.2046
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsCostumes
Provenance1988, sold by Ethnic Arts, Berkeley, CA, to Jeffrey Spurr, Cambridge, MA; 2015, sold by Jeffrey Spurr to the MFA. (Accession date: May 20, 2015)
Funerary Shirt
mid-20th century
Man's robe (riga)
early 20th century
Conservation status: Before treatment
20th century
second half 19th century
Man's shirt (Oruku pe)
late 19th–early 20th century
Conservation status: Before treatment
Gilbert Bobbo Ahiagble
about 2004
Man's wrapper
20th century
Woman's wrapper
mid-20th century
Woman's wrapper
late 20th century
Conservation status: Before treatment
20th century