This finely made lamellar armor with matching helmet is remarkable for its high quality and completeness and because it is the only miniature version of such an armor known. Since the proportions are not correct for a child, it seems likely that the armor was made either as a votive object or as costume for a sculpture in a shrine or temple. The miniature spearhead and matchlock gun (cat. nos. 79, 101) were probably made for similar purposes.

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