Tlingit coin armor
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| Weapon type: | Protective weapon |
| Designations: | Tlingit coin armor |
| Use: | armor |
| Working time: | around 19th century |
| Region of origin / author: |
Alaska , Tlingit ethnic group |
| Distribution: | Alaska |
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The Tlingit Münzrüstung ( engl. Tlingit coin armor ) is a protection weapon from Alaska.
description
The Tlingit coin armor is made of leather and bronze . Bronze coins, mostly from China, were sewn onto a leather undergarment. Chinese coins were chosen because they already had a hole in the middle with which they could be sewn . The coins came from trading transactions with traders from Boston or with Russian fur traders , where the skins of sea otters were exchanged for metal tools and the like. The undergarment is made of tanned seal leather . The coins were sewn onto this undergarment in horizontal or diagonal rows, overlapping or standing individually. The armor also includes a neck guard and a helmet , both of which are not studded with coins. The helmet is carved in the shape of a grimacing human face (see Tlingit war helmet ). This armor is considered evidence of the high technical and artistic standard of the Northwest Coast Indians.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Complete Inuit coin armor in the American Museum of Natural History, available online, (accessed June 29, 2011) ( Memento from April 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
literature
- 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, page 22, ISBN 978-0-486-40726- 5
- United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Annual report - United States National Museum , published by Smithsonian Institution, 1895
- David E. Jones, Native North American armor, shields, and fortifications , University of Texas Press, 2004, p. 112, ISBN 9780292701700
- Eric R. Wolf, Europe and the people without history , University of California Press, 1982, page 187, ISBN 9780520048980
