by Lexi Zotomayor on
Mar 31, 2018
Entombed in a glass casing was a cabasset, perhaps belonging to a set of armor of a sentinel, caught my attention as I was winding my way inside the museum in Cumberland Park. I read cabassets were usually worn by Italians, and not by Spanish guards who had set up a garrison on Cumberland island centuries earlier. But the answers to my questions continued to tantalize me for I am not a trained archaeologist nor a historian. Bereft for answers, I left the museum with a consolation: a snapshot of this helmet with the promise of discovery of the helmet's provenance sometime in the future.
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