2-1/8" heavy brass badge with most surfaces covered in enamel and with a link below joining a second link to a miniature replica of a cotton bale wrapped in a burlap type fabric all held in place by five individual black painted metal straps and brass links. The bale is 1x1.25x.5" thick. The outer circle of the badge reads "A.A.O.N.M.S. Rochester N.Y. 1911." The initials stand for Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. This group was established in 1870 as an appendant body to freemasonry. Centered over the fraternal symbolic pyramid and saber is a 1.25" slightly convex disc covered in porcelain enamel with title above "Nobles Of West Mississippi" in a crescent shape encompassing scene of black man with exaggerated lips and teeth having taken a large bit from a slice of watermelon held in both hands. In the bkg. are what seem to be a pair of shacks one with smoke coming from a chimney. The piece seems to have been produced for Shriners from Mississippi attending the 1911 convention in Rochester. Reverse of the piece in a diamond shape has name of maker "The Chas. M. Robbins Co. Attleboro Mass." NM as made and from the Hake Collection. Comes with Hake's COA. See black man's face novelty stickpin #1473.