Body armor
- Museum number:
- 9-21888
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090021888
- Alternate number:
- BY.T-82 (previous number) and T-82 (original number)
- Description:
- Two convex iron disks 7 3/4 inches in diameter, 3/4 inch deep and two convex iron disks 6 3/4 inches in diameter, 3/4 inch deep. They are joined together by leather straps with steel buckles. These appear to be some type of decorative body armor.
- Collection place:
- Tibet
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Tibet
- Collector:
- Theos C. Bernard
- Materials:
- Iron (metal) and Leather
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
- Production date:
- 19th-20th century
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Dimensions:
- diameter 17.145 centimeters, diameter 19.685 centimeters, depth 1.905 centimeters, and depth 1.905 centimeters
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