Privateer ship flags
La Manouba, Tunis, Tunisia
Palais de la Rose – Musée de l’Armée
19th century
Wood, fabric
This flag is divided into three sections, arranged in parallel along a long mast. The topmost flag has a red stripe and a black stripe, the middle is in the same shade of red, with three gold crescents in the centre, and the final flag is also red with a sword resembling that of the Prophet's cousin and fourth caliph, 'Ali.
Bechir Yazidi "Privateer ship flags " in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;tn;39;en
Prepared by: Bechir Yazidi
Translation by: Flaminia Baldwin
MWNF Working Number: TN 039
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