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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…
Type of item
- aqal
Date
- 2000/2015
Medium
- Material: artificial fibres
- Material: fibres
- artificial material
- Fiber
- Synthetic fiber
Type of item
- aqal
Date
- 2000/2015
Medium
- Material: artificial fibres
- Material: fibres
- artificial material
- Fiber
- Synthetic fiber
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 2000
- 2000/2015
Provenance
- 2015-06-01
- Aankoop
Identifier
- 7070-25
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/1033334
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- red
- black
- reed
- cotton (fiber)
- wool (hair material)
- wax
- ambergris
Year
- 2000
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-11T07:13:13.286Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-10-15T07:33:21.569Z