Cream and blue dashiki tunic 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 and blue dashiki tunic worn by Dr. Baba Chuck Davis. The tunic is constructed from cream, synthetic, brocade, fabric heavily decorated with royal blue and white embroidery at the neckline, waist pocket, sleeve pockets, cuffs, and back. The neckline of the tunic has a single scallop on the front and back. It has a large central embroidered design, an abstract tree shape in blue and white with an Adinkra Gye Nyame at the top. Running along the rest of the front and back of the neckline are seven (7) blue embroidered Gye Nyame symbols filled in with white embroidery. The top edge of the front pockets at the waist and the pockets on the sleeves are embellished with a blue embroidered band of circular swirls framed by a wavy blue line with circular flourishes on one side and a solid blue line accented with blue filigree.

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