Male Headdress Designed like a Helmet and Covered with Sogdian Silk Silk, linen, wood, leather; H. 50 cm Early medieval culture of the Adygo-Alanian tribes. 8th-9th century Moshchevaya Balka Burial Ground, North-western Caucasus, Moshchevaya Balka (gorge), Karachayevo-Cherkessk Republic Russia Source of Entry: State Museum of Ethnography of Peoples of the USSR, Leningrad. 1935