cuirass;
armour
- Museum number
- Am,NWC.73
- Description
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Cuirass, slat armour made of wood, cord.
- Production date
- 1800 (before)
- Dimensions
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Height: 59 centimetres
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Width: 57 centimetres
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Depth: 5.50 centimetres (stored flat)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2004-2007 23 Feb-1 Jan, BM Room 1, Enlightenment: Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century
- Acquisition date
- 1753-1800
- Acquisition notes
- Collected during James Cook's Third Voyage, 1776-1780, or another early voyage, perhaps that of George Vancouver 1791-5. Returned from the Tower Armouries, Leeds, 2002, for display in the King's Library 2003.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am,NWC.73
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Am17??D8.73 (old CDMS no.)