. Chinese clay figures. Sculpture -- China; Arms and armor, Chinese; China -- Antiquities. Defensive Armor of the Han Period 213 Han were of that metal then most generally employed, — copper. And a number of perforated, thin copper plates exhumed in the environment of Si-ngan fu from a grave of that epoch tends to confirm this opinion. These lamina?, some of which are sketched in Fig. 34, can but have served the purpose of being sewed on to the surface of a cuirass. They were employed for the making of a k'ai, and formed the natural continua-. FlG. 33. Sketches of Helmets (from T'u shu Isi ch'
. Chinese clay figures. Sculpture -- China; Arms and armor, Chinese; China -- Antiquities. Defensive Armor of the Han Period 213 Han were of that metal then most generally employed, — copper. And a number of perforated, thin copper plates exhumed in the environment of Si-ngan fu from a grave of that epoch tends to confirm this opinion. These lamina?, some of which are sketched in Fig. 34, can but have served the purpose of being sewed on to the surface of a cuirass. They were employed for the making of a k'ai, and formed the natural continua-. FlG. 33. Sketches of Helmets (from T'u shu Isi ch'ing which reproduced them from Wu pei chi), representing the Tradition of the Ming Period. tion of the ancient scale armor kiai discussed at the end of the previous chapter. The scales in the latter were cut out of leather: in the third and second centuries , the Han made a decided advance by gradual- ly transforming these leather into copper scales; and the Posterior Han, in the first centuries of our era, went a step farther in substituting iron for copper. The specimens in Fig. 34 demonstrate that the copper pieces leaned in their forms toward scales, though they approach to a higher degree the shape of a leaf (hence the term "leaf" which we meet in the Han authors). A slow and gradual development must have been. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Laufer, Berthold, 1874-1934. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History
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