Model rider, with an accompanying horse (17.1.59/1i) The rider is separate from the horse. His head and hands are of flesh coloured material, possibly plastic. He he has glass eyes, and black hair tied in a knot on top of the head. A long headdress of netting is secured to a cream headband with purple stitching, with a bow and two streamers at the nape. There are four layers of cream fabric wrapped around neck, suggesting under garments. The outer garment has gold and blue brocade sleeves, bound with orange cord at the wrists. The body armour consists of a breastplate of gold, grey, and metal bands joined with orange cord. There are two metal bosses on the breastplate, one on each side, each with a central hoop. The back plate is plain, black lacquered with a black string attached on the boss in the middle. A black metal container with a hoop above for carrying arrows is attached on a string, which is not original and probably added to keep the items together. The body armour on the upper arms is of similar construction to the breastplate.
Around the waist is a roll of thick cream damask fabric, and he wears pale gold trousers of damask fabric. There are seven panels of body armour suspended from the waist, two to the rear and three to the front, of similar construction to the breastplate. Two single panels of gold metal decorated with black lacing or cord, one covering each lower leg, are attached to the trousers by a pale grey piece of fabric. The lower legs appear to be made of fabric tubes stuffed with an unknown substance and stiffened with external rods. On the feet are straw sandals (waraji) tied with string between the toes. The feet appear to be painted grey to suggest tabi. There is a model sword in a fibre sheath through the waistband.
