Virtual tour. Aquientor: Reconstructing the Forgotten Armour of the Precolonial Iroquoians.
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- This is a recording of an exhibit I helped curate at the Dundas Museum and Archives. Recorded and narrated for posterity and accessibility purposes.
My apologies for the blurriness of some of the panels, I shot the footage in a hurry and didn't notice some of the issues before it was too late to redo.
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This is great work and a nice tour for those of us who weren't able to see the exhibit in person. Hopefully you'll have more opportunities to do similar exhibits in the future!
i love how the armour locks like an historical artifact becuse you have worn it a lot.
The quality of this channel's content is beyond amazing. The videos deserve a million views each, but unfortunately the algorithm punishes efforts like this
Congratulations or the guest curatorship! What a singular honor! Glad to see you begin to get some of the academic recognition you richly deserve. Your self-criticism about the reconstruction is brutally honest. The exhibit itself is brilliantly done. I especially appreciate the inclusion of the sample that visitors can handle. I was surprised by how comprehensive the exhibition was, encompassing nearly all your past research on the subject. My dream is that this becomes a traveling exhibit.
What an achievement, congratulations! Your perseverance and determination are yielding fruits and its well deserved.
This totally, completely, and utterly KICKED ASS!! I've been followin' your vids for a while now... I gotta tellya, I really appreciate all that you do! I'm Indigenous myself, but been stuck way over here in Japan for the better part of a couple of decades - it's so very good to see culturally familiar content. THANK you 🙂
Forwarded the link to Council Fire in Toronto in hopes their education department may show it.
It's great to see that your hard work has earned some official recognition. Congratulations!
This was brilliant. It was great to see all the things you've shown us in your videos brought together in one exhibit, telling the story of your research and conclusions in one comprehensive but concise film. I found the part about how pre-contact warriors practiced maneuvers and tactics especially interesting. They clearly had a detailed knowledge base of military theory that was taught, studied, communicated and practiced. Would love to hear more about it if your research has turned up more than was presented here- e.g. if any traces have survived in oral histories or artwork.
fantastic! I hope that others were inspired to look into the history of your peoples.
Congrats on the guest curatorship, man. Glad to see more traditional venues recognizing your work.
Beautiful work, congratulations! I wish I could have seen it..
Congratulations on making this great exhibit! You did a wonderful job.
This is several levels of interesting, informative, sobering, and delighting
Thank you for sharing this and the immense work you put in
Overall this exhibit seems very well put together in simultaneously demonstrating the complexity of pre-contact North-East Native civs while also exhibiting the concerns of speculative history with limited resources. Great job, would have loved to see in person if I ever had been in Ontario at the time.
Congratulations on your exhibit. It is a heroic amount of work and great that you got some recognition for your research.
Very impressive! I wish I could have seen it in person but you do a nice job of showing and reading everything.
still some of the best content on wooden armor and armor in pre colonial america out there
Very nice to see another more lengthy video. The short ones are informative, but I find personally I absorb information better when listening to something longer form. Specifically, your video on the Beaver Wars inspired me to do my own research and work on a presentation of my own for class. The way you emphasize human factors and motivations in your videos is something people don't consider nearly enough, it's an excellent perspective.
Great vid, thanks for posting. I have a 'club' made from a dead root ball of european buckthorn that I pulled up at some point and used to prod a campfire. The fire burnt away the roots and left a beautiful pattern behind. It is a fierce tool. I use to smash the ice in my pond.
I'm having this weird moment where I feel like I've heard the word aquientor before, but looking it up takes me back to this video. Very compelling word.
Thoroughly enjoyed this upload. Self preservation interpreted as cowardice.
I have no expertise in the subject, but still find your research the most interesting. Thank you for sharing your passion with us. Bravo.
Wow thats awesome
I wish that you had made this video to announce the exhibit when it started. I would have gone to see it.
I didn't feel comfortable with advertising it on the channel. Only about 3 percent of my audience lives in southwestern Ontario.
As one in that 3%, I also really wish I would have known your work was being exhibited so I could've seen the wonderful craftsmamship of your wooden armour set in person! If you have the opportunity to do something like this again, tossing up a
Awesome.
Such an important part of the history of Turtle Island! Glad I got to see it here if not in person.
Thank you!
So much love, care, and effort was put into this. Not only in the actual crafting of the armor pieces, but in research, in demonstration, in clear explanatory descriptions, and in curation. I seriously commend you for this achievement. And congratulations on the show!
That is supercool man! you've hit the big times
Looking forward to watching this later today! Just saw you’re first plague read and wow, your writing style is so poetic and nice to listen to
Precious info 🥰 Merci beaucoup Monsieur Malcolm!
Well done!
Dude I live for this shit, commenting for the algorithm.
Wonderful! Thank you very much for recording and uploading this video.
good work, as always. like the way you use technical words for armour and shield types, but explain them concisely for those unfamiliar.
I LOVED listening to this while I cooked, and I learned a lot! Congratulations on your guest curatorship, and well done on all the items you fashioned for the exhibition!
I initially found your channel while I was looking up wooden armor and pre-contact indigenous methods of warfare for a DnD campaign, and I’m very happy to see how your channel has grown since that time!
Wooden (especially tough wood like oak or hickory or even bamboo) and even cloth armor can be really impenetrable if overlapping as scales, especially if the cloth scales are also woven at least under-two and over-two, warp and woof. Mats of stalks, such as plentiful grass, can be woven together and placed overlapping for teepee covers. Two teepee tripods can be linked together by ridge poles as a longhouse.
I wish I had seen it in person!
Excellent work. Thank you
OOhp, this is that answer to the Scientific Paper question! Glad you helped make this happen!
Of note is that the lightly-armored chest plate is that it resembles a type of armor used in ancient Greece and (more commonly shown) Rome called "kardiophylax" or "pectorale", respectively. While not a requirement, having a parallel of this armor in another culture helps support its plausibility.
this is awesome! thanks for recording it all
Congratulations! Awesome work!
Thanks Malcom wish I could have been there
Incredibly interesting, thanks for posting!
VERY happy you documented your exhibition! Since I watched all of your experimental archaeology videos about armor it is wonderful to watch this video! Thank you. And, a good new year.
I wish you were at living history events with this stuff.
Your channel deserves a lot more views than it has gotten so far.
A fascinating topic that is extremely underdiscussed, especially when you compare it to the abundance of videos endlessly repeating the same facts about european arms and armor in downright excruciating detail.
My channel has niche subjects, dry delivery and low production value. It's about as big as it's going to get.
@@MalcolmPL Well, they are very interesting and, I daresay, unique anyway.
What is a niche subject is in the eye of the beholder. By all means european arms and armour could also be a niche subject, but look at how many videos (many of which become quite repetitive) there are about that, and how many views they get.
But if it weren't for you, I wouldn't even be aware of iroquois armour, let alone have seen it tested the way you do.
So either way, kudos, and keep up the good work! :)
Wow, I wish I could've seen this in person.
I expect your armor to start appearing in video games within the decade.
outstanding~
very cool!
awesome. we want more!
I spent some time last year in Toronto, shame the exhibit hadn't been conceived of back then, would have liked to see it in person.
Great work
Thanks
Dundas is a very interesting name.
Lot of places in Canada named after obscure British politicians.
@@MalcolmPL Ah. Dun is Gaelic for fort. Lots of places start with Dun here. But if it's named after a person then.
I am back with something that has been on my mind since some of your earliest videos: why not test one of your armour pannels with a copper spear point and/or a club with a copper spike? It would have a greater historical relevance than steel. Cheers!
you ar awesome
That is awesome 😎
DOPEEEE
holy moly how did i missed this
Hiya
You're really cool
What was the draw weight of the bows that shot the arrows that the armour provided excellent protection against?
#90 from about 10-20 feet.
@@MalcolmPL Thank you
05/19/2024: A video posted by gold and gunpowder, has used imaged of your armor in their video. posted nine days ago. titles "did pirates use armor" i asked that he credit you in the description. he responded asking "are you the creator?" directed at me. i did my best to name your channel and video. i imagined you might like to know, also that you might like some credit where it is due. well wishes. hope this helps.
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your work is shown at the time stamp of 5:21 on the pirate video.
Thank you for bringing it to my attention, but I don't really think it's worth pursuing. It's only a photo from the Hamilton Spectator and it's only in there for a few seconds. I don't need credit for that. Besides which I think the image technically belongs to the Spectator and not me.
It's baffling though that he chose that particular photo. The Spectator published a couple, an other one shows the armour much more clearly and he wouldn't have had to sloppily crop me out of the picture. It's like he just grabbed the first result off google images and ran with it. Rather lazy.
@@MalcolmPL agreed very odd. congratulations on the "flattery of plagiarism". as always, your time and energy are appreciated.
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I have noticed a weakness of your armor. Nothing big, but potentially deadly. You have the breastplate over the skirt. If a weapon hits the skirt in a bad angle, it could move up and under the breastplate and into the stomach.
Same could happen with upwards aimed thrusts of long knifes or sharpened sticks. You could prevent that by putting the skirt over the breastplate.
I follow your channel for some time now and I am fascinated by this kind of armor.
That made me build a large shield made of hazel sticks and cord. Covers with sticks.
And as I rewatched your videos, I noticed this weakness.
I tested for that a while ago, it's not how it turns out in practice.
This armour doesn't behave like steel, blades don't slide against it, instead the points bite into the wood or catch on the strings.
The flexibility of the armour also contributes to this, buckling inwards and limiting any potential of deflection. These are parts of why the armour behaves so poorly against steel spears.
Additionally the breastplate being overtop is better for blunt force. Transferring impact from the smaller plate to the larger.
@@MalcolmPL very interesting. I did not think about the blunt force. And it is incredible that the armor can stop weapons from gliding up.
@@jarlnils435 It's not a perfect comparison, but in certain senses it behaves more like cloth than steel. You imagine a thrust to a gambeson, it's not going to glance off.
@@MalcolmPL well, yeah. Did not think about that. But I like the method. It is way better than wicker. The shield I am building at the moment, is incredible strong.
It's upsetting that this knowledge is just... Lost. Intentionally destroyed, perhaps, but completely out of reach because of it.