Warriors
Description: On Catalogue Card: Two men in fighting kit.Two warrior in armour holding sharks' teeth swords. The man on the left wears a plaited coir (coconut fibre) armour consisting of a te tuta (short shirt or jersey) with diamond-shaped motifs probably worked in black human hair, trousers, and a te otana (cuirass), which has a back plate that protected the head and neck from coral rocks; and a helmet (te barantauti) made of inflated porcupine fish skin. The man on the right wears a te tuta over a belt with strips attached, and a te barantauti. The men are standing in front of a pinted studio backdrop. [JD 22/3/2011]
Type: Traditional
Format: image/jpg
Subject: Armour; Weapons
Language: en
Data provider: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (University of Cambridge), Cambridge, UK
Provider: ECLAP, e-library for Performing Arts
Providing country: United Kingdom
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- Period Term: http://semium.org/time/AD2xxx
- Period Label: [2e millénaire après j.-c.] (fr); [second millenium ad, second millenium ad, years 1001-2000] (en)
- Period Term: http://semium.org/time/19xx
- Period Label: [20.., 20??, 20e] (def); [20e siècle] (fr); [20-th, 20th, 20th century] (en); [20й век] (ru); [20de eeuw] (nl)
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- Place Term: http://sws.geonames.org/4030945/
- Place Label: [基里巴斯] (zh); [kiribati] (ro); [kiribati] (no); [kiribati] (hu); [kiribatis] (lt); [kiribati] (id); [kiribati] (de); [gilbert islands, ki, kiribasi, republic of kiribati] (def); [kiribati] (fi); [kiribati] (fr); [kiribati] (sv); [кирибати] (bg); [kiribati] (sl); [kiribati] (sk); [кірибаті, кірібаті] (uk); [kiribati] (da); [kiribati] (it); [karibati, kiribati] (cs); [κιριμπάτι] (el); [kiribati] (la); [kiribati] (pl); [kiribati, quiribati] (pt); [kiribati] (en); [кирибати] (ru); [kiribati] (et); [kiribati] (es); [kiribati] (nl)
