English: Cavalry armor, Tibet and possibly with Bhutanese and Nepalese elements, riveted mail hauberk with mirror armor, steel helmet, armored belt, one of a very few surviving examples, 18th–19th century, Iron, gold, copper alloy, wood, leather, and textile, assembled based on photographs taken in the 1930s and 1940s in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa during the Great Prayer Festival. The photographs showed troops of ceremonial armored cavalry, who wore a standardized set of equipment as stipulated by the central government of Tibet probably from the mid-seventeenth or eighteenth century onward. In the back round, a Tibetan shield, possibly 14th–16th c, cane, iron, and brass, Met museum.