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Refined version of one of five silly little dune sketches. Will be doing them all on a separate canvas in this style. Sandworm is best explorer.

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World Building Prompt #524

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The Khirghiz (8th-9th Century)

(1) Khirghiz warrior, 8th century

Though isolated, the Kirghiz had advanced weaponry. This warrior's one-piece helmet is particularly fine. Apart from a thickly quilted coat his only other armor is a chest protection of overlapping iron lames. His highly decorated sword is, however, still of the straight double-edged type. (Main sources: helmet from Tomsk area, 7th-10th C., ex-Medvedyev; sword and scabbard from Altai Mts., Kirghiz, 7th-8th C., Hermitage Mus.; Buddhist wall-painting from Koço, 9th C., Staat. Mus., West Berlin; stucco horse from Ming-oi, 8th C., Brit. Mus.; Kirghiz armor, 6th-8th C., ex-Medvedyev.)

(2) Kimak tribal warrior, 9th century

The abundant weaponry found in pagan Kimak graves include types of armor mid-way between lamellar and scale. Some Kimak armor may have been imported from settled civilizations but this warrior's segmented helmet is typical of the medieval steppes and Russia. His bowcase again has tooled decoration portraying a horse-archer while his straight sword has the non-symmetrical quillons more commonly associated with sabers. (Main sources: Kimak sword, 9th-10th C., exKhudyakov; helmet from Legerevskie, 9th—10th C., ex-Mazhitov; Kimak armor, 9th-10th C., exKhudyakov.)

(3) Khirghiz tribesman, 9th century

Later Kirghiz military equipment showed greater Chinese influence. It also had much in common with that of the later Mongols. This heavily armored cavalryman has armor almost entirely of iron lamellae, plus an iron helmet reinforced with iron bands. The beginnings of plate armor can be seen in his shoulder pieces and the disc over his chest which may have covered a lacing system. The laminated vambraces on his lower arms are in a long-established Transoxanian tradition while his shins would be protected by mail strips which appear, though not very clearly, in some Buddhist wall-paintings. The horse's armor is of leather lamellar with a flexible disc over the animal's shoulder to prevent chafing. (Main sources: Kirghiz sword, 9th 10th C., ex-Khudyakov; Kirghiz armor, 9th 12th C., ex-Khudyakov; Buddhist wall-paintings from Bezeklik, 9th-10th C., Berlin, probably lost in WW2; Buddhist wall-painting from Kumtura, 8th C., Staat. Mus., West Berlin; painted paper fragment from Yar, Uighur, 9th C., Staat. Mus., West Berlin.)

(illustration and text from Nicolle & McBride (1990) Attila and the Nomad Hordes; pp. 93-94)

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Irish Travellers - Wikipedia

Did you know?

Some 50 per cent of Travellers die before their 39th birthday and some 70 per cent fail to live past the age of 59. The startling findings contained in a new book on Traveller mortality suggest that life expectancy in the Traveller community is equivalent to that of settled people in Ireland in the 1940s.

50% of Travellers die before 39 - study

Some 50 per cent of Travellers die before their 39th birthday and some 70 per cent fail to live past the age of 59.

Traveller babies three times more likely to die than those in settled population

Infant mortality rate is falling and more Traveller children are going to secondary school – report

Only 13% attend secondary school compared with. 92% of the general population and only 1% go to college.

Traveller children being channelled into unofficial ‘Traveller schools’, Oireachtas told

Less than 1 per cent of community in 3rd level education education, committee told

Suicide rates are 7 times higher for them. 1 in 11 deaths are by suicide.

Government must tackle ‘silent killer’ of suicide in Traveller community

National Traveller Mental Health Network calls for the government to invest in specific services for the Traveller Community as suicide rate

One in four women in prison is from a Traveller background, despite the ethnic group making up just 0.7% of the overall population.

Call for change on disproportionate  numbers of Travellers in prison

Traveller women make up 22% of the adult prison population

The government committed cultural genocide against them and got away with it.

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Nomad

photos by Jeroen Toirkens, essay by  Jelle Brandt Corstius

Lannoo, Tielt 2011, 208 pages, Text in English and Dutch,                           ISBN 978-9020995985

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An impressive photography book on the harsh lives of nomads

This strikingly beautiful and unusual photobook takes us on a multi-continent search for the last living nomadic peoples in the Northern Hemisphere. It’s a remarkable journey, showing facets of modern-day nomadic cultures that are not quite what one would expect to find.

Here is an introduction from the book’s website, which is a pleasant journey in itself:

“Since the beginning of time, nomadic people have roamed the earth. Looking for food, feeding their cattle. Looking for an existence, freedom. Living in the wild, mountains, deserts, on tundra and ice. With only a thin layer of tent between them and nature. Earth in the 21st century is a crowded place, roads and cities are everywhere. Yet somehow, these people hold on to traditions that go back to the very beginning of human civilization.”

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