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Sultanate of Bagirmi horseman in full padded armour suit, 1901 Linothorax was a type of armour similar to gambeson, used by ancient Greeks . Meanwhile, the Mesoamericans were known to have used a kind of quilted textile armour called ichcahuipilli before the arrival of the conquistadors , who loaned this word as Spanish : escaupil .
Gorget in a full suit of armour In the High Middle Ages, when mail was the primary form of metal body armour used in Western Europe, the mail coif protected the neck and lower face. In this period, the term gorget seemingly referred to textile (padded) protection for the neck, often worn over mail.
The nobles and elite warriors wore a coat of mail called a drapi, kavacha, or varman. They covered their back, chest, and lower parts of their body. Certain warriors in the Vedic period wore metal armour called varman. In the Rig Veda the varman is described as sewn armor or a coat of mail that covers the whole body.
Confusion arises because of the wide variety of terms by which similar armours are known. Banded mail has been described as "a form of mail reinforced with bands of leather", as "overlapping horizontal strips of laminated metal sewn over a backing of normal chain mail [sic] and soft leather backing" and as "many thin sheets of metal are hammered or riveted together".
The various companies were employed in scouting among the Native Americans, especially along the Missouri frontier, with a portion of the regiment going to Nacogdoches, Texas, to keep white trespassers from the Native American lands, and preserving peace between whites and Indians and among the Indians themselves; also in building wagon roads ...
Man's Breastplate, Crow (Native American), 1880–1900, Brooklyn Museum Left Hand Bear, an Oglala Lakota chief, wearing a hair-pipe breastplate, Omaha, 1898. The hair-pipe breastplates of 19th-century Interior Plains people were made from the West Indian conch , brought to New York docks as ballast and then traded to Native Americans of the ...
The tight, princess-line dress on the right fits smoothly to the body from the shoulders to the lower hips. Gown of 1878 has a long train and a squared neckline. It is worn with opera-length gloves. Jacket and skirt costume of 1878 features a long train trimmed with pleated frills and ruching. Matching ruching trims the cuffs of the sleeves.
Traditional Native American clothing is the apparel worn by the indigenous peoples of the region that became the United States before the coming of Europeans. Because the terrain, climate and materials available varied widely across the vast region, there was no one style of clothing throughout, [1] but individual ethnic groups or tribes often had distinctive clothing that can be identified ...