Chain-mail shirt

Museum number:
9-21932
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090021932
Alternate number:
BY.T-226 and T-226 (original number)
Description:
This is a chain-mail shirt worn by an officer in the Tibetan army.
Collection place:
Tibet
Verbatim coll. place:
Tibet
Collector:
Theos C. Bernard
Materials:
Steel (alloy)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Production date:
17th-18th century
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Chain-mail shirt, accession number 9-21932, described as This is a chain-mail shirt worn by an officer in the Tibetan army.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Chain-mail shirt, accession number 9-21932, described as This is a chain-mail shirt worn by an officer in the Tibetan army.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Chain-mail shirt, accession number 9-21932, described as This is a chain-mail shirt worn by an officer in the Tibetan army.

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