Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Frontier cuirass c. 1720 believed Pueblo Indian in Spanish Style

Jim McDougall · Yesterday, 10:14 PM

This is a quandry!! Seems like there was some elaborate deity of worship through the Meso American history Olmec, Aztecs, Mayans which had the feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl......possibly this was indeed a parade costume.
The notion of the feathering is compelling in suggestion to the lamellar armor we're looking at, but of course speculative as similar type of armor were in use in Europe in much earlier times.

Thanks very much for sharing the pics! Those adarga shields are REALLY hard to find, last one I saw was BAVIA and was in use in the Alamo context.

Yesterday, 10:14 PM	#42
Jim McDougall Arms Historian Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Route 66 Posts: 10,660	This is a quandry!! Seems like there was some elaborate deity of worship through the Meso American history Olmec, Aztecs, Mayans which had the feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl......possibly this was indeed a parade costume. The notion of the feathering is compelling in suggestion to the lamellar armor we're looking at, but of course speculative as similar type of armor were in use in Europe in much earlier times. Thanks very much for sharing the pics! Those adarga shields are REALLY hard to find, last one I saw was BAVIA and was in use in the Alamo context.