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THE HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COSTUME
ALBERT RACINET
THE CLASSIC WORK OF THE 19TH CENTURYTHE ANCIENT WORLD
THE ETRUSCANS
AN UNKNOWN CIVILIZATIONLower Register
14 A warrior, wearing a pointed helmet similar to those worn in Thrace. The shape of this defensive armour recalls the Mongolian or Circassian helmet. It seems to have been covered with a felt bonnet, a practice common when the warrior was not in battle. The subject here wears laced boots known as Tyrrhenian boots.
15 A chariot pulled by a team of four. It is driven by a Phrygian and its wide, studded wheels with eight spokes are exactly like those on the Assyrian chariots in the sculptures at Nineveh.
16 & 18 Examples of men's hairstyles.
17 A helmet with a long, swaying crest.
19 A typical peasant, dressed in a tunic and cloak. His low-crowned, broad-brimmed hat is called a petasus, and his leggings are straps of leather wound around his calves. He is carrying a staff with a forked end, the mark of the labourer.
20 An Etruscan warrior wearing a Boeotian helmet with a raised crest.
21 A helmet or bonnet.
