"Curious cross cultural influence?" Topic

All,
So I am painting a DBA army for a commission, Eastern Forest Indians circa 1100 AD. I am struck by the similarity between the appearance of the wooden armor worn by the noble warriors, and that of Mycenaean Greeks from the Trojan War era. They have a full chest plate, thigh covering and even wooden greaves. The most unusual part is the headgear. Again made of wood, it looks an awful lot like the typical Boar tusk helmet worn by Homeric warriors.

See for yourselves –

More of a matter of using what you have to protect your noggin than cross-cultural pollination.

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Good point – there is only so much you can do with wood when it comes to making armour

I've also seen illustrations of Siberian tribesmen who used wooden armor similar in style to Japanese. For an interesting alternate (sort of) background for North American primitive warfare Barry Fell's "America, B.C." is worth a read.

Check out some of the wood armor worn by American Indians prior and after for a short time when the European arrived.

Have y'all seen the article in WI399 (latest issue), Russians vs Tlingit in (Russian) Alaska ?

Someone (don't remember who) used to make a line of figures for it.

I've got a copy of this book:

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There is an amazing thread, well two actually, over on LAF about the Tlingits. One of the threads is the whole project leading up to the WI 399 article.

The miniatures are made by Varang out of Russia. They have a page on FB. I've never ordered from them.

There's also paymastergames.com -- they have Pacific Northwest figures which include some interesting armors.I have ordered from them with good results.