Cream, red, green, and orange dashiki robe worn by Dr. Baba Chuck Davis

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A cream, red, green, and orange dashiki robe worn by Dr. Baba Chuck Davis. The robe is constructed from a cream, floral brocade, heavily decorated with red, green, white, and orange embroidery on the front and back. The robe is a large rectangle of fabric that has been folded over to make arm holes and stitched closed near the bottom left and right edges. The left and right edges of the robe are selvage edges. The fold at the top of the robe has an asymmetrical V-neck cut out of the front. The neckline and front is heavily embroidered with red, green, white, and orange embroidery. On the proper right side of the V-neck is a triangular field of blue with embroidered think, diagonal stripes in red, gold, and green. The front neckline is embellished on the sides with a repeating pattern of orange circular swirls, banded on both sides with solid orange lines.

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