General Hok's Gilded Headpiece

A gilded headpiece—ornately carved with a round hollow at its base to mount atop a staff—kept in General Tengtu Hok's museum in Shanghai (resting on purple velvet inside a glass case). In the narrative, Indiana Jones identifies this artifact as the crucial first objective in his plan to outpace the Nazis: he intends to retrieve it from General Hok as leverage toward finding Ravenwood and the Well of the Souls. The object is subsequently the focus of an attack in the museum, where samurai protectors clash with Indy during his attempt to inspect/recover it.