A sun shawl was a kind of garment that protected the wearer from sunshine. At least one sun shawl was made of a metallic material. An aged Human woman who lived on the Outer Rim planet Tatooine in 0 BBY wore a sun shawl to protect herself from the binary stars of the Tatoo system.^[1]

Behind the scenesEdit

The scene featuring the sun shawl was filmed in front of a mosque in Djerba, Tunisia, during the principal photography of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope on April 4, 1976. Although the scene was cut before the release of the film,^[2] the sun shawl appeared in the December 1976 novelization of A New Hope,^[1] ghostwritten by Alan Dean Foster,^[3] then in Marvel Comics' first issue, in the same scene. In 1998, the Star Wars Insider 41 magazine published a shot of the cut-scene in The Lost Cut of Star Wars article.^[4]

AppearancesEdit

• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (Appears in cutscene(s))
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope novelization (First appearance)
• Star Wars 1

SourcesEdit

• The Art of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
• Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays
• Star Wars: Behind the Magic
• "The Lost Cut of Star Wars"—Star Wars Insider 41

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