Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
4. Information Forms (hierarchy name)
5. information forms (objects)
6. information artifacts
7. [information artifacts by function]
8. identifying artifacts
9. flags

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication
4. Information Forms
5. information forms
6. information artifacts
7. information artifacts by function
8. identifying artifacts
9. standards

Anotations

Scope note:

Flags hung from a crossbar or frame mounted on a pole, often having two or three streamers or tails or else square in shape, historically used as standards in battle or in processions by military leaders, princes, cities and republics, particularly of Italy, guilds, and groups associated with the church; also used in the present day by trade unions.