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Worth noting that Kufi writing originates from the region of Kufa in modern-day Iraq, also the source of the Kufiyyeh headdress.

I could see it being part of an effigy but also maybe sewn into a headdress or something?

Plenty of Americans and Canadians (and, I’d posit, Brits) meanwhile could probably recognise the headdress and little more.

Google were the afterthought that was renowned for that ridiculous image generator that envisioned 17th century European scientists as full-headdress North American natives.

Fes (Turkish) or a fez (English), just like cap, is a headdress.

Frankly, if you know any amount of history you must know that the Ottoman empire is not called an empire because of the favorite headdress of the caliph.

> Plenty of Americans and Canadians (and, I’d posit, Brits) meanwhile could probably recognise the headdress and little more.

Do we expect to enter a new era where everyone uses James Cameron's insane attention to detail in order to make a headdress look realistic, or develop a new language and teach it to actors?

Coverings, hair, headdress, hats, scarfs, head bands, bandanas or facial ornamentation which obscure the face, are not permitted (except for religious […] reasons).

This is something that you can do with a lot of Egyptian art: there's the king, you know him by the distinctive crown, and there's Amun, which you know again by his distinctive headdress sporting two long feathers.