The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Helmet (Suji Kabuto)

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Bashford Dean and the Creation of the Arms and Armor Department, 1904–1929

As part of a special Sunday at the Met program held in conjunction with the exhibition Bashford Dean and the Creation of the Arms and Armor Department, Donald J. La Rocca explains the founding and history of the department.

A zoologist by training, Bashfod Dean was for a time simultaneously a full professor at Columbia University, Curator of Fishes at the American Museum of Natural History, and Curator of Arms and Armor at the Metropolitan Museum. At the Met, he worked initially as a guest curator in 1904, when he was invited to install and catalog the Museum's first significant acquisitions of arms and armor. He continued on as honorary curator until joining the staff full time in 1912 as head of the newly created Arms and Armor Department, rapidly building the collection into one of international importance.

Video/Audio (6)

Dressing in Steel: Part One
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Dressing in Steel: Part Two
(00:20:04) 379 views

A Visit to the Armor Galleries
(00:30:21) 4843 views

Bashford Dean and the Creation of the Arms and Armor Department, 1904–1929
(00:30:12) 245 views

The Art of Arms and Armor: Challenges of Research, Display, and Education
(00:33:09) 329 views

Curators, Collectors, and Dealers: The Growth of the Arms and Armor Collection, 1929 to the Present
(00:36:37) 221 views

Helmet (Suji Kabuto)

Date:: late 16th–early 17th century
Culture:: Japanese
Medium:: Lacquered iron, silk, gilt copper
Dimensions:: H. 16-1/4"; W. 14-1/4"
Classification:: Helmets
Credit Line:: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1914
Accession Number:: 14.100.143

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Description

The gilt copper badge on the turnbacks of the neck guard is that of one of the Shiraishi family, who served the Daté, daimyo (lords) of Sendai.
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Silk (33,917)

Gilt (9,077)

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Iron (3,770)

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Asia (68,122)

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