Headband for boys outfit

This double ring cable (Arabic: aqal or iqal) serves to hold in place a traditional Saudi headscarf for men or boys. Such combinations of square cotton headscarves (Arabic: shimaghs) with aqals are an integral part of traditional men's clothing in Saudi Arabia. (Colyer Ross 1981, 39) This is already visible in nineteenth-century photographs taken in Jedda and Mecca by Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje o…