Category:Mongol back-flap hat

Mongol back-flap hat. A princely attribute. The number of feathers indicates rank.

(1994) Illustrated Poetry and Epic Images. Persian paintings of the 1330s and 1340s, Category:New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 12

"The rider's hat in the detached painting also indentifies him as a Mongol ruler. It has a long flap down the back and is decked with several plumes, two large owl feathers and three long eagle feathers. This type of hat was commonly depicted in the Ilkhanid period (...) These paintings show that the number of eagle feathers was significant: typically the enthroned ruler wears a hat with three eagle feathers, whereas the flanking attendants wear hats with only one." in (in English) (6 August 2019) Iconography of Islamic Art: Studies in Honour of Robert Hillenbrand, Edinburgh University Press, p. 46 ISBN: 978-1-4744-7142-8.