Bone Armour

Photographer: MacDonald, George F.
Description

This armourmay have been traded or acquired from the Inuit. The caption reads: "A Tlingit warrior wore this bone armour in the battle (of Sitka). It could deflect a war club but not a musket ball."

Physical location
National Historic Park, Sitka
Keywords
Tlingit
Armour
cuirass
slat
warfare
Genre
Photographs
Type of resource
Still Image
Part of
George and Joanne MacDonald Northwest Coast Image Archive
Identifier
warobjects596
Copyright
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Terms of use
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Copyright owner(s)

© George F. MacDonald.

Source/owner terms of use
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