Pam and I have a friend who lives on Vashon Island near Seattle, Washington whom I had not seen since 2003. We knew that we would stop for a visit but neither of us had any real desire to go in to the city. What we learned as we go closer to having a real date for arrival was that there was a Terracotta Warrior exhibit in Seattle at the Pacific Science Center. Well, now we had a good reason to go to the city and it was the only thing we saw in Seattle. The exhibit was amazing. Non flash photography was encouraged and most people used their phones, however, I used a Canon PowerShot SX720 HS digital camera. It gave me the opportunity to get some amazing low light shots with very little blurring.


















I found the shoes that these statues wear were pretty interesting in their detail.





There were a smaller set of different terracotta people and I enjoyed the amazing detail they were created with.





The color on the reproductions is also quite vivid and highlights so much of the detail of the statues.




There were many other 3rd century artifacts throughout the exhibit and I only took pictures of a few of them. The real jewel of the exhibit was the life size warriors and that is where my focus remained.
To finish this post here are some pictures of stone armor like what is depicted on the terracotta statues.



Wow, I’ve seen pictures of this exhibit, but I never realized how many warriors there are. And horsies, I didn’t know there were horsies too. Amazing? How heavy do you think a full set of stone armor is?
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As I explained in the captions on some of the pictures the armor was probably very heavy, which is why the senior officers wore less than the peons. They attribute the lack of armor on the senior officers to bravery but I posit that if I were a senior officer I would not want to wear all that weight. I certainly would not hesitate to let the soldiers think that my lack of armor was due to my bravery.
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