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Armour leather coat made of pangolin scales gilded and lacquered from India, 17th century. City of Kushinagara in the 5th century BCE according to a 1st-century BCE frieze in Sanchi Stupa 1 Southern Gate.
Indian brigandine reinforced by mirror plates. The medieval Indian equivalent of the brigandine was the chihal'ta hazar masha, or "coat of ten thousand nails", which was a padded leather jacket covered in velvet and containing steel plates which was used until the early 19th century. The skirt was split to the waist, allowing the soldier to ...
Iron Jacket (Comanche: Puhihwikwasu'u, lit. ' metal shirt '; born c. 1790 – died 1858) was a Native American War Chief and Chief of the Quahadi band of Comanche Native Americans. [1] Iron Jacket was a Comanche chieftain and medicine man whom the Comanche believed had the power to blow bullets aside with his breath.
Upper and middle-class Indian men wore western clothing in public, often doing so because it brought them closer to being equal with European men. At first, this included combining elements of Indian and Western clothing, as some men would wear a 'dhoti' (loose lower garment) with a shirt and coat.
Mail and plate armour (plated mail, plated chainmail, splinted mail/chainmail) is a type of mail with embedded plates. Armour of this type has been used in the Middle East, North Africa, Ottoman Empire, Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, Central Asia, Greater Iran, India, Eastern Europe, and Nusantara.
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Body armor, personal armor (also ... or coat of armor, among others, is armor for a person ... and is known to have been worn in ancient India around 1700 BC and the ...
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