The Evolution of Culture, and Other Essays

by Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers

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36. Fragment of Scale-Armour of horn found at Pompeii. [Pictorial Gallery of Arts, vol. i. figs. 10, 61.]

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37. Piece of Scale-Armour, made of the hoofs of some animal, from some part of Asia; said to be from Japan. Meyrick, l. c., vol. i. pl. iii.

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38. An ancient Stone Figure in Scale Armour. Cuming, Journ. Archaeol. Assoc., vol. iii. p. 31.

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39. Back-piece and Breast-piece of Armour from the Sandwich Islands, composed of seals’ teeth. (Mus. R. U. S. Inst.; pres. by H. Shelley, Esq.)

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40. Egyptian Suit of Scale-Armour. Rawlinson, Herodotus (1862), vol. ii. p. 65, fig. iii; Wilkinson (Birch), Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians (1878), fig. 53 a.