MAIL COIF OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE 16th — MID 19th CENTURIES FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN


Bobrov L.A. Agatay О.M. Khasenov S.S.
2024Cimmeria Publishing

Materialy po Arkheologii i Istorii Antichnogo i Srednevekovogo Prichernomorya
2024#2024Issue 16670 - 685 pp.

The article analyses a unique mail coif (ҚРҰМ нқ ҚЖ 13) stored in the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Based on its design features, the mail coif is attributed as one of the variants of ringed “bashlyks”. The closest analogues were found from the territory of Central Asia and Southern Siberia. In Kazakhstan and Maverannahr (in particular, in Kokand) the mail “bashlyks” were used until the middle of the 19th century. The model is unique because the production of crown used flat “baydana” rings. The late period of the spread of ringed “bashlyks” with a “baydana” crown in the region was previously localized in the second half of the 16th — early 17th centuries, that is, the period of the existence of the Kazakh Khanate. It is likely that the mail coif of the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan was made in the 17th— 18th centuries by craftsmen of Maverannahr or neighboring territories and was in service with Kazakh, Uzbek or, less likely, Oirat (Dzungarian) warriors. The artifact is a vivid model of Central Asian mail coifs and is a vivid example of the military-cultural relations of the Kazakhs with the Bukhara Khanate, Kokand and other state entities of the region.

chainmail hood , history of Kazakhstan , Kazakh Khanate , kazakhs , ring mail coif , ringed “bashlyk” (mail coif)

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Archeology and Ethnography Department, Novosibirsk State University, 1 Pirogov St., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation
Research Institute for Jochi Ulus Studies, 15B Pushkin St., Astana, 010000, Kazakhstan
National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 54 Tauelsizdik Avenue, Astana, 010000, Kazakhstan
National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Department of History of Kazakhstan, 54 Tauelsizdik Avenue, Astana, 010000, Kazakhstan

Archeology and Ethnography Department
Research Institute for Jochi Ulus Studies
National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan
National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan

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