Subject: irregular armored cavalryman

Culture: Turco-Iranian

Setting: civil war, Zand-Qajar Persia mid-late 18thc

Object: kulah 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"

* 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."

> PUBL Macaraeg 2011 p34 f3

> event photos

* Harwood International > Samurai Collection

"Khula-khud with div (helmet with demon)

Iran

Early 19th century

Iron" ...

* Crow Collection of Asian Art

* Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery

"Helmet (kolah khud) and shield (separ) 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." ...