Helmet, composed of chain armour and decorated with leather bands. One of two collected from Central Sudan and listed together in the museum's slip catalogue.

Shirt and helmet of chain armour - The armour and weapons of West African kingdoms and Sudanic states were very like those used during the Middle Ages and provided little protection from the rifles and machine guns of the colonial powers. The cluster…

Collected during the Lhasa Expedition 1903/4.