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===Quilted armor=== | ===Quilted armor=== | ||
This description matches Mesoamerican quilted armor: | This description matches Mesoamerican quilted armor: | ||
− | [[Image:Quilted_armor_Metropolitan.jpg | + | [[Image:Quilted_armor_Metropolitan.jpg|thumb|200px|none|"The garment worn by this figure is believed to represent the quilted armor worn by warriors, but the elaboration of the costume and its accoutrements suggest a figure of high rank and noble status." Costumed Figure, 7th–8th century -- Mexico; Maya Ceramic, pigment; H. 11 17/32 in. (29.3 cm) (1979.206.953) – [http://www.metmuseum.org Metropolitan Museum of Art] ''Note that this figure post-dates the Nephite period.'' Notice also the pectoral ("breast plate").]] |
− | [[Image:Quilted_armor_WiBoM01.jpg | + | [[Image:Quilted_armor_WiBoM01.jpg|thumb|200px|none|From William J. Hamblin, “Armor in the Book of Mormon", p. 413; in ''Warfare in the Book of Mormon'', edited by Stephen D. Ricks & William J. Hamblin, (Provo, Utah: Deseret Book Co. and FARMS, 1990). Note the arm shields and pectoral.]] |
===Arm shields=== | ===Arm shields=== | ||
− | [[Image:Arm_shield_WiBoM01.jpg | + | [[Image:Arm_shield_WiBoM01.jpg|thumb|200px|none|"Mayan “arm shield”, from Stela 17, Dos Pilas, Tetexbatun, Guatemala, Around A.D. 733"; from William J. Hamblin, “Armor in the Book of Mormon", p. 415; in ''Warfare in the Book of Mormon'', edited by Stephen D. Ricks & William J. Hamblin, (Provo, Utah: Deseret Book Co. and FARMS, 1990).]] |
===Breatplates=== | ===Breatplates=== | ||
− | [[Image:Pectoral_WiBoM01.jpg | + | [[Image:Pectoral_WiBoM01.jpg|thumb|200px|none|"Mayan headdress and “pectoral” [chest or breastplate] hung or attached around the neck. Stela 16, Dos Pilas, Tetexbatun, Guatemala, Around A.D. 733. William J. Hamblin, “Armor in the Book of Mormon", p. 414; in ''Warfare in the Book of Mormon'', edited by Stephen D. Ricks & William J. Hamblin, (Provo, Utah: Deseret Book Co. and FARMS, 1990).]] |
==Ritual warfare== | ==Ritual warfare== |
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Book of Mormon armor does not match the type of armor that Joseph Smith would have been familiar with, nor does it reflect European styles of armor:
19 And when the armies of the Lamanites saw that the people of Nephi, or that Moroni, had prepared his people with breastplates and with arm–shields, yea, and also shields to defend their heads, and also they were dressed with thick clothing—Alma 43:19
This description matches Mesoamerican quilted armor:
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