Armour similar to Medieval costumes found in Kiribati was used for combat

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It is thought that the Gilbert Islands within Kiribati were settled sometime between 3000 BC and AD 1300, with the later emergence of the Kiribati culture, a sea-faring people that are renowned for building maneaba (large communal buildings) and swift outrigger sailing canoes.

The islanders created complex suits of armour using thickly woven sennit from the coconut fibre string (known as te kora). Both men and women contributed to the creation of armour, with women producing te kora which is the basis of the major components.

The historical provenance of the armour is largely speculated due to no written language.

 

It is suggested that the armour was used for ritualistic one-on-one combat over land and resources, where those involved took turns to inflict wounds on each other according to strict rules.

The combatants used weapons that resembled medieval broadswords with a serrated edge made from shark teeth, whilst wearing protective headgear made from dried blowfish.
 
Anthropologist Katharine Luomala noted that “the intent was to wound and not to slay; a slayer was regarded as a murderer and had to pay compensation in land”. 

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