Post #48507 by Basement Kahuna on Tue, Aug 19, 2003 9:11 PM

This is a tribe I am learning about that inhabited the Austral Islands in the lower Caroline Chain. They were a culture that revolved strictly around warfare, sort of a Sparta in the South Pacific. This is an interesting picture of a Kiribati warrior's armor...It was made of wood, coconut fiber, and human hair..The reinforced backplate is interesting, too if you think in the context of primitive weapons (it made a head or neck strike difficult). The club is made of monkey pod and shark's teeth, as are the knuckle dusters and cuffs. They were builders of elaborate stone temples, burial places, and fortifications. These people were not to be tangled with...even the young girls carried shark-tooth knuckle dusters and pairs of double-edged shark-tooth or sawfish clubs. Very interesting culture. The South Pacific is full of this. Better than any fiction !

[ Edited by: Basement Kahuna on 2003-08-19 21:17 ]