Animal skins.

[Tarbicus]

panthers (and tigers) have been spotted running around the English countryside again!

Aye, not far from me.

[Jeroen Pelgrom]

Rhino
http://www.vroma.org/images/mcmanus_ima ... trhino.jpg

Question is, could their skins have sometimes been used for signifers et al after they were dead?

i´m trying to imagine a signifer with a rhino skin... hock:

[Tarbicus]

I just knew someone would come up with the rhino line :wink:

Cheers.

[Arrian]

Personally, I think a polar bear would be quite fetching. They walk the strees outside my house, you know.

But seriously, no wolves? If there are none in the evidence, then were did the idea come from? Does it men only bears and large cats are usable?

[Marcus Mummius]

But republican Velites did wear wolf skins(or parts of them anyway) didn't they?

Regards,

[hoplite14gr]

Well THANKS!!!!!!! You all have been very helpfull!
Actually I started the thread because I read in Pausanias -Phokika-the description of the "Paeonian bull" and the ways it is captured.
Well the animal has been clearly identified as the European bisson that now lives in Poland and Belarus. Skeletal remains have been found in the mountain of Rodopi and I just was imagining the possibilites for reancting Thrakians, Paeoninas, Dakians, Getae -looking like Sioux- but after I saw the hide prices I sobered up! I might settle for bison horns that they seem to apear in Hellenistik kinds portraits on coins.
Thank you all again. It was very informative.
Kind regards
Stefanos

[ambrosius]

And apart from several pink ones :wink: panthers (and tigers) have been spotted running around the English countryside again!

Hey, don't forget leopards 8)

Ambrosius

[Robert Vermaat]

Nice one..