Any symbologists here? What is this symbol?

Question

This is not a brain teaser, I'm really trying to find an answer, since its for a Black History class. I've tried for hours searching the internet, and have pretty much exhausted that resource, now it's on to real people for help. Please help! Here is the link of what I drew, hope it works...
http://www.youdraw.com/cgi-bin/solopic.pl?picnum=406381

The symbol is a quarter circle, with three penatrating lines.

Whew, got the answer, unfortunately no one here had the correct answer, but I'll pick the one who had put the most effort into answering, but thanks to all, even the dry cleaning answer, lol.

If your curious about the symbol, it is actually a egyptian hieroglyph that combines two consonants. It means "KM" or "Kem" and stands for a color, "Burnt Black" or just plain black.

The symbol has been used by egyptians themselves to describe their appearence, which they've described as black. So the ancient egyptians were black, and did not become light-brown until conquerors of lighter skin mixed and integrated with the population. Interesting how history books do not emphasize this! How racist!

Answer 1

Black history? really? The symbol rang a bell for me, so i checked some of my books, and i didn't find an exact match, but i did find that shape within some larger symbols, but they African history of the ancient sort. The symbols are from a book called the Theurgia Goetia, which lists the name and representiative symbols of spirits. Specifically spirits that were known to King Solomon. He would use the symbol, and the correct ritual to call up the spirit in question to answer things, or perform services. And like i say, there were no exact matches, but it did occur as part of bigger symbols. The Theurgia Goetia is part of a bigger book called the Lesser Key of Solomon. Intersting reading. good luck with your class.

Answer 2

I've never seen it before.

But perhaps, since itssomething for your Black History class, perhaps it is something from the history movements to bring equality?

the quarter circle is one fourth the population? or one of four groups of that time period?

and the lines...no clue there, maybe the lines are representative of colors or divisions that are moving into "part of the pie" as it were?

Answer 3

This is a guess...maybe it's a stylized symbol for the "black power"
fist, (closed fist, palm facing forward) of the Black Panther Party.

Answer 4

The most logical awnser would be a quarter circle with three lines penatrating

Answer 5

it looks like a claw. my guess would be something related to black panther party

Answer 6

It means "DRY CLEAN ONLY".