Conch helmet - Higgins Armory Museum - DSC05528
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Description: Helmet embossed in the form of a conch shell (awabi uchidashi kabuto), Japan, 1618. Made by Nagasone Tojiro Mitsumasa; signed "Echizen no kuni ju Mitsumasa; Nagasone Tojiro saku". Exhibit in the Higgins Armory Museum, 100 Barber Avenue, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. The museum permitted photography without any restriction, both in writing and when I asked verbally. Date: 24 September 2011, 11:26:14. Source: Self-photographed. Author: Daderot. Permission(Reusing this file): Public domain.
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- Spiralia (spiralians)
- Mollusca (molluscs)
- Gastropoda (snails)
- Vetigastropoda
- Trochida
- Trochoidea
- Turbinidae (turban snails)
- Turbininae
- Turbo (turban snail)
- Turbo cornutus (Horned turban)
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