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Object Number 77-5-60/11076
Display Title Coat of mail
Descriptions
Inventory Description Mail, large iron chain link piece
Classification
  • Mail
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / Japan
Additional Geographic Terms Yokahama
Materials Iron
Dimensions Overall: 67 x 38 x 1 cm (26 3/8 x 14 15/16 x 3/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Collector Joseph Heco
Donor Thomas G. Cary (1877)

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