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    "localId": "33679",
    "label": "Helmet with Phoenix and Battle-Axe Ornaments",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.609"
}

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    "id": "33679",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.609",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Helmet with Phoenix and Battle-Axe Ornaments",
    "description": "This helmet has an iron \"hachi\" of thirty-three riveted laminations, a \"shikoro\" of five plates laced in \"kebiki\" (spread hair) style with navy blue \"ito doshi\" laces, and axes as \"yokodate\" made from whale baleen.  A Phoenix (\"Ho o\") serves as a \"maedate;\" one tail feather is missing.  It is lined with rawhide.",
    "provenance": "Bunkio Matsuki Sale, A. A. Gallery, New York, February 10, 1906, no. 257; Henry Walters, Baltimore, February 10, 1906, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1825-1875 (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.609",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "kabuto"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 5,
    "pageCount": 5,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 54.8,
            "height": 44.5,
            "depth": 49
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: H: 21 9/16 x W: 17 1/2 x D: 19 5/16 in. (54.8 x 44.5 x 49 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Myochin",
    "med": "iron, lacquer, silk, wood, baleen, rawhide",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2222"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3300"
    ]
}

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