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Helmet
1800s
- Medium
- Brass
- Classification
- Arms and Armor
- Dimensions
- Average: 25.4 cm (10 in.)
- Culture
- Philippines, Mindanao
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Oceania
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Francis F. Prentiss
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The predominantly Muslim Maranao people of the southern Philippines developed a rich material culture—including brass work, textiles, weaponry, and architecture—commonly featuring a curvilinear, geometric ornament known as okir. This helmet, while based on Spanish types, features filigree vents and openwork embellishment that are distinctively Mindanao. The top might once have been decorated with feathers or other ornaments.
