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Chest plate. Before 1804
Chest plate. Before 1804
Number
МАЭ № 2454-7
Title
Chest plate
Ethnicity
Tlingit
Date
Before 1804
Collectors-person
Material
wood, leather, sinew, paint
Dimensions
Length - 106 cm; height - 58 cm
Annotation
The Tlingit armors consisted of two parts different in size. The bigger part protected the back, and the smaller – the chest. Armors were made of thin wooden laths braided round with tendons. On both sides of an armor a free space was left where the drawing of its owner’s clan emblem was placed.
Corpus
Ethnography of America
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