Name of Object:

Garments and accessories: bisht (cloak), bag, ghutra (headdress), ‘iqal (rope)

Location:

Rome, Italy

Holding Institution:

National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography 'Luigi Pigorini'

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Holding Institution (original language):

Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico 'Luigi Pigorini'

Date of Object:

1917

Inventory Number:

inv. 85937, 85938, 85939, 85940, 85941, 85942

Dimensions:

Bisht: 138 x 88 cm and 142 x 89 cm; bag: 45 x 20.5 cm; ghutra: 122 x 122 cm; ‘iqal: diameter 40 cm; ‘iqal: diameter 48 cm

Provenance:

Western region of the Arab Peninsula

Description:

The small stock of clothes and accessories was donated to the Italian King Vittorio Emanuele III by the shaykh Al-Husayn ibn ‘Ali Himmat, who, proclaiming himself in 1917 to be King of Hijaz (the north-western region of the Arabic Peninsula, nowadays part of Saudi Arabia), obtained the international recognition of his title. In the same year, King Vittorio Emanuele III entrusted the gifts he received by the shaykh to the Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico “Luigi Pigorini” in Rome.

Type of Object

Arab costumes; dresses; accessories

Citation of this web page:

Vito Lattanzi, Marina Minozzi "Garments and accessories: bisht (cloak), bag, ghutra (headdress), ‘iqal (rope)" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2026.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;it;194;en

Prepared by: Vito Lattanzi, Marina Minozzi
Copyedited by: Anne Dowell

MWNF Working Number: IT2 052