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^[[10 [[underlined]] not 94-95 [[/underlined]] ]] Hough ( Walter.) Primitive American Armor. From the Report of the United States National Museum for 1893, pp. 625-651, with plates 1-22, and figures 1-5, Washington, 1895.

A summary of the main conclusions which may be drawn from the paper shows: (1)^[[=]] That a majority of the American tribes had advanced to the stage when they made use of body armor that is, were sedentary tribes.
(2) This also implies differentiation of weapons rendering armors necessary, or the migration of the invention, or independent invention. The cost of thick skin which has appeared at all times and places may have arisen independently, following the prime idea of the concomitance of weapon and antiweapon, but-
(3) Plate armor in America is a clear case of the migration of invention, its congeners having been traced from Japan northeastward through the Ainos, Giliaks, and Chukchis, across Bering Strait by the intervening island to the Western Eskimo. Here the armor spread southward from the narrowest part of the strait, passing into the slat armor of the Northwest Coast which is probably a development of the plate idea. The plate armor may have spread to the Eastern coast of North America. Hence it appears to be conclusive that plate armor in America had Asiatic origin. The date of this introduction is not considered.^[[=]]