МАЭ № 2454-7

Chest plate

Tlingit

Before 1804

wood, leather, sinew, paint

Length - 106 cm; height - 58 cm

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.

Ethnography of America