Subject: ناصر nāṣir 'helper' cavalry
Culture: Sudanese
Setting: Mahdist states, 1880s-1910s
Object: armor = helmet, mail, jibbeh quilted coat
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* Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery
"Fabric coat (jibbah) and helmet
Sudanese, 19th century
Armour was worn exclusively by cavalry in the Saharan armies, and usually took the form of a quilted coat,
sometimes supplemented by a mail shirt worn over the top."
Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery *
"Armour
Sudanese, 19th century
The helmet, with its spun skull and aventail of split rings,
is a European import, probably destined originally for the guards of the Egyptian Khedive Tawfiq." ...
* Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery
"Helmet Sudanese, 19th century Later Sudanese armour production imitated the
style of the largely Mamluk material that survived from an earlier period in armouries."
* Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery
"Helmet Mamluk Egyptian, 16th century This is a good example of a three-hundred-year-old helmet remounted for use in
the Sudan in the late 19th century. Armour was very valuable in the Saharan region, and was worn only by elite cavalrymen."