Crocodile shell
| Crocodile shell | |
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| Information | |
| Weapon type: | armor |
| Designations: | Crocodile Armor |
| Use: | weapon |
| Region of origin / author: |
Africa |
| Distribution: | Africa |
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The crocodile shell is a protective weapon from Africa.
description
There are two different basic versions:
- Bone crocodile shell: The bone crocodile shell uses the stable bone plates that lie under the crocodile's back skin. After a thorough cleaning, these are attached to a leather undergarment.
- Crocodile armor made of leather: The crocodile armor made of leather uses the tanned skin of the crocodile. The individual pieces are cut and sewn together.
Armor of this type has been used in Africa for a long time, and it is not possible to specify when it was used. There is evidence in the British Museum ( London ) and the Louvre ( Paris ) of crocodile shells that came from the army of the Roman Empire and ancient Egypt .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bone crocodile shell in the Pitt Rivers Museum, available online, (accessed November 11, 2012)
- ↑ Leather crocodile shell in the British Museum, London, available online, (accessed on January 6, 2011) ( Memento from April 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Paul Johnson: The civilization of ancient Egypt. Verlag Atheneum, 1978, ISBN 978-0-689-10921-8 .
- ↑ Auguste Demmin, CC Black: An Illustrated History of Arms and Armor. Echo Library Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-1-84830-049-1 , p. 27.
literature
- Lord Egerton of Tatton, Wilbraham Egerton Egerton, Indian and Oriental Armor , Courier Dover Publications, 2002, illustrated edition, page 169, ISBN 978-0-486-42229-9
- Christopher Spring, African arms and armor , Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993, page, ISBN 978-1-56098-317-0
