Baju Lamina
The Baju Lamina (also known as Lamena by Bugis, Sa 'Dan by Toraja, lamina or laminah by Malays)[1][2] is a mail and plate armor from Nusantara archipelago (Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, and Philippines).
Description[]
The Baju Lamina is a chain armor that is worked in the form of a vest. The back part consists of small rectangular brass plates, the front part of brass rings. Several rectangular brass plates are attached to the brass rings, which extend from the height of the collarbone to about the lower edge of the last costal arch. The brass plates serve to reinforce the chain armor at the level of the more vulnerable chest and pelvis. The Baju Lamina has neither sleeves nor a collar.[1] One of the earlist reference to this armor is after the conquest of Malacca by Portuguese (1511). The son of Afonso de Albuquerque mentioned the armament of Malacca: There are large matchlocks (Java arquebus), poisoned blowing tubes, bows, arrows, armour-plated dresses (laudeis de laminas), Javanese lances, and other sorts of weapons.[3][4]: 127
Gallery[]
Traditional Bugis Lamena armor.
Armor at Telaga, Kuningan, West Java.
Warriors of Banten, 1596.
Baju Lamina is similar to this Moro mail and plate armor (kurab-a-kulang).
Malay baju lamina and kechubong helmet.
Bugis brass lamina, with large plates.
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Albert G. van Zonneveld: Traditional weapons of the Indonesian archipelago. C. Zwartenkot Art Books, Leiden 2001, ISBN 90-5450-004-2, S. 28.
- ^ Klinkert, Hillebrandus Cornelius (1926). Nieuw Nederlandsch-maleisch Woordenboek. N. v. boekhandel en drukkerij voorheen E. J. Brill. p. 546.
- ^ The son of Afonso de Albuquerque (1557). Comentários de Afonso de Albuquerque. Lisboa.
- ^ Albuquerque, Afonso de (1875). The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, Second Viceroy of India, translated from the Portuguese edition of 1774. London: The Hakluyt society.
Further reading[]
- Russell Jones (Hrsg.): Loan-words in Indonesian and Malay. KITLV-Jakarta – Yayasan Obor Indonesia, Jakarta 2008, ISBN 978-979-461-701-4.
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