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Cabacete (Helmet)
The collection record classifies this work as arms and armor. It is dated c. 1480s–90s. Recorded culture or place: Spain, late 15th century.
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- Museum title
- Cabacete (Helmet)
- Date
- c. 1480s–90s
- Culture / origin
- Spain, late 15th century
- Materials and technique
- steel
- Dimensions
- Overall: 27.3 x 26 x 36.5 cm (10 3/4 x 10 1/4 x 14 3/8 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 2012.39
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
This tall open-face cabacete, alternately known as a "kettle hat" or "war hat" and ancestor of the later morion popular during the 1500s, would have been worn by an infantry soldier, not a mounted knight. The helmet has a conical point and a broad swooping brim, and its user may have worn a bevor, or separate chin piece, to protect his lower face and throat. He may also have worn a brigandine, or canvas doublet lined with metal plates, to protect his torso. Infantry troops were generally armed with hafted weapons such as a bill or halberd.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund · CC0
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