Tibetan horse armor
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| Weapon type: | Protective weapon |
| Designations: | Tibetan horse armor |
| Use: | armor |
| Creation time: | 9th to at least 17th century at the latest |
| Region of origin / author: |
Tibet , gunsmiths |
| Distribution: | Tibet |
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A Tibetan horse armor is a protective weapon from Tibet.
description
With the Tibetan horse armor, lamellar armor is sewn onto a base made of leather or fabric . The neck is protected with a separate piece of armor, which consists of two individual parts. The horse's forehead protection is made of leather on which steel rivets are fastened close together. The horse armor is often decorated with colors.
use
Tibetan horse armor was probably used as early as the Tang Dynasty . Tests by the Metropolitan Museum showed that the specimens there date from the 15th to the 17th centuries. This form of horse armor was only found in Tibet, but similar lamellar armor for horses was also used in China .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c H. Russell Robinson : Oriental Armor. Courier Dover Publications, 2002, ISBN 978-0-486-41818-6 (reprint), page 153.
- ↑ George Cameron Stone , Donald J. LaRocca: A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor: in All Countries and in All Times. Courier Dover Publications, 1999, ISBN 978-0-486-40726-5 (reprint), page 98.
- ↑ Chris Peers: Soldiers of the dragon: Chinese armies 1500 BC-AD 1840. Osprey Publishing, 2006, ISBN 978-1-84603-098-7 , pages 112-113.
- ↑ a b Warriors of the Himalayas: Rediscovering the arms and armor of Tibet . Exhibition description of the Metropolitan Museum, New York
- ^ Robinson, p. 153.