The manga has a variety of helmets, hats and headgear, across nations and cultures.
Helmets[]
Valley of the Wind
- Nausicaä and Mito wear flight helmets with Ohmu shell goggles built in (Mito has a ceramic patch with a stylized eye over the right eye since he normally wears an eyepatch over his right eye) [1].
Periphery
- (sample helmet)
Torumekia
- The Imperial Guard helmet is full helm that appears to be some variation of an armet [2].
- Kushana's helmet was a variation on the Imperial Guard Helmet. While still an armet, it had a different, more ornate face-mask pattern with a visor over the eyes [3].
- Torumekian Pilots wear helmets with dark visors and cone-shaped face masks [4].
- Regular Army helmets have a built-in stripe visor, cover the ears and flares out at the back [5].
- A different Torumekian Helmet [6] looks like a skull with a single strip eye plate.
Dorok
- Dorok helmets are segmented helmets with an upper face mask and neck protectors. The face mask has built-in goggles and is worn with a Shohki Mask that covers the nose, mouth and chin [7].
Worm Handlers
- Worm Handlers wear helmets with built-in goggles. There is a ridge going fore and aft along the top of the helmet. The helmet is very reminiscent of the WWI French M15 Adrian Helmet [8].
Forest People
- (sample helmet)
Hats[]
Valley of the Wind
- Many people wear hats in the Valley of the Wind.
- Most hats have a line of decoration above the brow.
- Nausicaä's formal hat looks like a cut-down wimple, exposing her ears and neck. Above her brow is a line of stones with a symbol of the Valley with an inset stone, which probably identifies her as a princess of the house [9].
- King Jhil's hat looks more like a helmet. It is a cap with a line of braiding above the brow and an inset stone in the center, and ear protectors [10].
- The Wise Women wear hooded cloaks or robes with a line of stones above the brow and a line of around the shoulders [11].
- The maidens, Nekari and Tocto, wear a full wimple, with differing decorations above the brow [12].
- A majority of the men and boys wear either a balaklava that extends down to the shoulders or a balaklava with a separate cap, and sometimes the cap has earflaps. The line of decoration above the brow varies [13].
- A majority of women and girls wear either a wimple or a balaklava to the shoulders. The line of decoration above the brow varies [14].
Periphery
- Yupa's hat is a broad-brimmed floppy hat with a wide band, flat top and fringed tassel. He wears it with a balaklava/cloak combination with his hat [15].
- The refugees from Pejitei had similar styles as the men and women of the Valley of the Wind, except one woman had a slight veil in front of her face [16].
Torumekia
- (sample hat)
Dorok
- (sample hat)
Worm Handlers
- (sample hat)
Forest People
- (sample hat)
Headgear and Facemasks[]
Valley of the Wind
- (sample headgear)
Periphery
- Rastel wore a cap with a wide band of stones around it, leaving her ears exposed [17] that was identified as a crown [18].
Torumekia
- Kushana's crown extends ear to ear over the brow, with a two-headed snake at the top [19].
- A headstone of authority is a thin-banded frame with a stone at the brow. It is worn by staff officers. Kurotowa wears one [20].
- Priests of Torumekia wear black hoods and plain white face-coverings with eyeholes [21].
Dorok
- The Holy One's facemask [22] covers the nose and mouth and has three horizontal lines over the mouth with a triangle on the forehead between the eye holes.
- The Holy One's Breathing Mask [23] is a variation of a Shohki Mask that covers the nose and mouth with two tubes out which go to large bags, presumably air bags, carried by acolytes. There is an embroidered inverted triangle, with a small circle and a chevron inside it, over the mouth. It was worn by the Blind priest that captured Nausicaä and Asbel [24].
- Other facemasks [25], presumably lesser priests, are similar to the Holy One's facemask but have two vertical or two horizontal lines over the mouth.
- Representatives from the Council of Monks wear cowels. The senior priest had a facemask with five vertical bars over his mouth and a single vertical bar on his forehead between the eye holes [26]. Lesser priests have three horizontal bars over their mouths with a single " tooth" sticking up from the lowest horizontal bar and a triangle on the forehead between the eye holes.
- The Holy Emperor's Younger Brother, Miralupa, wears a face mask [27] with pairs of eyes above and below the eye holes, all linked by a trident facing down and stylized squiggles on each side of the trident fork.
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Worm Handlers
- Worm Handler women wear caps with valuables sewn to them [28].
Forest People
- (sample headgear)
References[]
- ↑ DE1a pg 7 (Nausicaä's Helmet (first appearance), pg 30 Mito's Helmet (first appearance)
- ↑ DE1 pg 41
- ↑ DE1 pg 43
- ↑ DE1 pg 43
- ↑ DE1 pg 71
- ↑ DE1 pg 287
- ↑ DE1 pg 71, pg 140, pg 141 (in segments)
- ↑ DE1 pg 43 (first appearance), pg 45 (close up)
- ↑ DE1 pg 25
- ↑ DE1 pg 25
- ↑ DE1 pg 25
- ↑ DE1 pg 25
- ↑ DE1 pg 25
- ↑ DE1 pg 25
- ↑ DE1 pg 15 (first appearance), 19 (close up)
- ↑ DE1 pg 35
- ↑ DE1 pg 40
- ↑ DE1 pg 55
- ↑ DE1 pg 70-71
- ↑ DE1 pg 70 (first appearance), pg 73 (identified)
- ↑ DE1 pg 90
- ↑ DE1 pg 155
- ↑ DE1 pg 142
- ↑ DE1 pg 143
- ↑ DE1 pg 161
- ↑ DE1 pg 273
- ↑ DE1 pg 251
- ↑ DE1 pg 236, 247
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