Subject: irregular armored cavalryman
Culture: Turco-Iranian
Setting: civil war, Zand-Qajar Persia mid-late 18thc
Object: کلاه خود kulah khud helmet
Harwood 10 *
* Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology > Love and War: The Weaponized Woman
* American Museum of Natural History > Stout Hall of Asian Peoples
* National Museum of Scotland > Royal Museum
"ARMOUR Iran 17th-18th Centuries
"[...] The spiked helmet, kulah, with an adjustable nose-guard and a mail curtain to protect the neck and shoulders is lavishly inlaid with spiralling foliage and inscriptions. In use it would have been wrapped with a coloured scarf and adorned with plumes inserted into the three holders. ..."
* Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art > Permanent Collections
"Damascened Helmet Persia metal"
Harwood International > Samurai Collection *
"Khula-khud with div (helmet with demon)
Iran Early 19th century Iron" ...
* Museo Nacional de Antropología > Religiones Orientales
"Casco Irán. Siglo XVIII Casco rematado por la cabeza de un demonio.
Presenta decoración incisa a ángeles y motivos vegetales. En el Corán se habla de los ángeles y del demonio,
como habitantes del cielo y del infierno, quienes se encargan de la alabanza o de la venganza a Dios."
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* Crow Collection of Asian Art
* Museo Naval
"Casco indo-persa con remate piramidal, asiento de penacho almofar nasal,cimera y canal de malla,
decoración incisa damasquinada con flores de loto, palmetas y roleos; lleva malla de hierro." ...
Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery *
"Helmet (kolah khud) ... Persian, 19th century
The helmet has a solid skull and is chiselled and gilded with hunting scenes." ....
*Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery
"Helmet (kolah khud) Persian, early 19th century
This helmet, known by collectors as a 'devil's head' or 'devil's mask' type,
has a pierced skull with Koranic inscription around the lower edge.
It is decorative and fashionable, intended for parade rather than war." ...
