Laufer, Berthold, 1874-1934 · Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History · leaf 188
n r Fig. 40.Flail-like Cavalry Weapon (from Wu pei chi). p. ml a History of Chain Mail and Ring Mail 251 from China; that they made use of it, while riding on horseback, infighting Chinese infantry; and that the Chinese soldiers learned tohandle it, and are more clever at it than the Jung. Its… … Fig. 41. Ring Mail of Steel Wire (from Wu pei chi of 1621). implement, with which it agrees in mechanical principle. It is stillknown in Peking under the name of threshing-flail, and is used infencing. I saw this sport practised in 1902, and at that time secured aspecimen for the American Museum,…
Sculpture -- China · Arms and armor, Chinese · China -- Antiquities
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