the hair on top of a helmet is called toufa.
what is the hair on top of a helmet called?
toufa
the decorative similarities between the sutton hoo helmet and its anglo-saxon contemporaries are peripheral, if not substantial. the helmets from wollaston and shorwell were designed for use rather than display; the latter was almost entirely utilitarian, while the former, "a sparsely decorated 'fighting helmet,'" contained only a boar crest and sets of incised lines along its bands as decoration. its boar crest finds parallel with that atop the benty grange helmet, the eyes on which are made of garnets "set in gold sockets edged with filigree wire . . . and having hollow gold shanks . . . which were sunk into a hole" in the head. though superficially similar to the garnets and wire inlays on the sutton hoo helmet, the techniques employed to combine garnet, gold and filigree work are of a higher complexity more indicative of germanic work. a helmet sharing more distinct similarities with the sutton hoo example is the one from coppergate. it features a crest and eyebrows, both hatched in a manner that may reflect "reminiscences or imitations of actual wire inlays" akin to those on the sutton hoo helmet. the eyebrows and crests on both helmets further terminate in animal heads, though in a less intricate manner on the coppergate helmet, where they take a more two-dimensional form. these similarities are likely indicative of "a set of traditional decorative motifs which are more or less stable over a long period of rime," rather than of a significant relationship between the two helmets. compared with the "almost austere brass against iron of the coppergate helmet," the sutton hoo helmet, covered in tinned "pressblech" designs and further adorned with garnets, gilding, and inlaid silver wires, radiates "a rich polychromatic effect." its appearance is substantially more similar to the staffordshire helmet, which, while still undergoing conservation, has "a pair of cheek pieces cast with intricate gilded interlaced designs along with a possible gold crest and associated terminals." like the sutton hoo helmet it was covered in "pressblech" foils, including a horseman and warrior motif so similar to design 3 as to have been initially taken for the same design.
sutton hoo helmet
bullet::::- type 92 – the adrian helmet was later replaced by a japanese designed helmet called the type 92 (1932). it was officially called "tetsubo" (steel cap) but was called "tetsukabuto" ("steel helmet") by troops. it was made in the shape of a dome with a short protruding rim all the way around it (the paratroop version only had a short brim in the front). this helmet was made of a thin inferior chrome-molybdenum steel with many proving to be very fragile, being easily pierced by shrapnel and/or gunfire. a star (or anchor for the ijn) was soldered to the front and the helmet and star were painted mustard khaki. they were sometimes whitewashed in the winter. a tan, khaki or olive-green two layer, fiber reinforced linen cover was available with a yellow star sewn on the front. the helmet was secured to the head by an elaborate set of straps descended from those of the kabuto "samurai" helmet. it was also able to be worn over a reversed field cap. camouflage nets were widely worn over the helmet especially in the southern theatre and pacific island campaign.
uniforms of the imperial japanese army