Mask from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City)

The article dwells upon the unique mask kept in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, USA). The mask is made of iron and is provided with a copper perimeter-border. According to the typological analysis and to the comparison with pictorial sources it dates back to the 14th - the beginning of the 15th century and it is correlated with the armoury complex of the warriors from Mongolia and the China of the Late Yuan Dynasty - the Early Ming Dynasty period.