Mecca Flag
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1893
name: label: Donor Name
content: Robert Levy & Co.
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "An old catalog card says this was exchanged with Anton Heitmuller, but in Sept. 1963 when it was looked for an unnumbered specimen was in storage, the description of which fits closely enough that it appears to be the one, and as in other cases the item got returned to the Museum. - R. Elder. Made of a green cotton ground onto which are sewn patches of white and yellow, with passages from the Koran [Qur'an] in a contrasting color of red, white or green sewn onto these. Ref. Casanowicz, USNM. Bull. 148, p. 82, no. 32." Card indicates that this Hajj banner or flag was at one time numbered 155,090, and was originally from Cairo, Egypt, but was purchased from the Turkish Exhibit of the World's Columbian Exposition/Chicago World's Fair, 1893.
label: Notes
content: The Casanowicz publication entry on 155090 identifies it as "Mecca flag - Used in the pilgrimage processions [Hajj] to Mecca. Made of cotton; green ground with yellow and scarlet-colored trimmings; with passages from the Koran in white sewed on. ... Height 7 feet; width 13 feet, 3 inches. Cairo, Egypt."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Egypt, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 027205
label: USNM Number
content: E158260-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Flag
physicalDescription: label: Width - Object
content: 218 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 33 cm