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 side than on the inner; there are no metal mounts to it. The inside appears to have been painted black, with a wide band of red crossing it diagonally. It still retains the enarmes, made of strong dressed buckskin and lined with purple velvet. Portions of the neck strap (guige) are likewise in existence. So strong is all the material of which it is composed, that there can be no doubt it was used in warfare.

The exterior still shows a red field upon which numerous stripes, some of them gilded and incised, run from the centre to the outside edge.

J 4, Musée d'Artillerie, Paris

No. 2, Wallace Coll.

The second shield (D 60) was presented to the Royal Armoury by the Marquis of Coquilla in 1887. It is apparently fashioned of similar wood. Inside and out it is covered with parchment, and over this, on the outer side, are painted hoods or helmets; but of these one only has survived to show what they were originally. Although much perished, the remains of red paint in the interior are discernible, also a portion of the white buckskin straps that were originally the enarmes. Don Leocadio Canton Salazar asserts—founding his statement on the examination of an old manuscript