"Nubian clothing" Topic

I have picked up some Old Glory 15mm Nubians. They seem to be wearing a hairy "kilt". Is it meant to be hair on calfskin? Sheep? Goat? Mother-in-Law? I have seen a modern artist's rendition showing an archer wearing a leopardskin, but I can't see everyone wearing leopardskin kilts without causing a severe depopulation of leopards in Nubia. You never know though…

Antelope, sheep, whatever was slower than the hunter on the day. Leopard might be appropriate to a king/general/hero but not rank & file – any depopulation would be of Nubians not Leopards, pre firearms.

Egyptians tended to show them in linen or animal skin which looks like it would be cow hide.

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Didn't that part of the world also have cotton?

Seems like they could have been using dyed or undyed (since dye is expensive) cotton….?

I have no idea by the way, just curious.

Not sure about Nubia, but traditionally Maasai performed lion hunts as a rite of passage for warriors. Apparently not every adolescent had to kill his own lion, but there would still be a fair number taken in addition to lions killed in protecting cattle. All of course with spears.

Obviously the Maasai aren't Nubians and lions aren't leopards, but a warrior culture would still look at predators in a similar fashion. After all, at that time 'conservation' would have been a completely foreign concept.

As to alternatives, from the old WRG 'Armies of the Ancient Near East' -

The inhabitants of Lower Nubia or WOuPal, were physically akin to the Egyptians but somewhat darker while those of Kush or Upper Nubia probably included a strong Negro element.
Clothing usually consisted of leather or animal-hide garments, and exotic skins such as lion, cheetah and antelope were favoured. Belts and sashes were probably made of leather and decorated with beadwork. Jewellery made of ivory, wood, bone, shell, stone and gold was often worn. Hair was decorated with mud or arranged in rows of horizontal ringlets. This could be further adorned by ostrich plumes, headbands or leather caps.

One of the animal skins noted elsewhere was goat, which probably as a major domestic animal would have been common.

"Didn't that part of the world also have cotton?"

Not until long after. Cotton was still being imported from India to the Nile valley in Roman times.

I notice that the Egyptian depictions of Nubians, shown in the above link, the Nubians seen to have reddish brown or ocre hair colouring. Would that a dye or "mud"?