According to William Hamblin, although the Nephites were not the Maya, the Nephite arm-shields perhaps can be equated with Maya armor. There are numerous types of shields depicted in Maya art. One was a smaller round shield that was made of woven reeds or that was a wooden frame covered with animal skin and often profusely decorated with paint and feathers. De Landa, a sixteenth century Mesoamerican historian, describes them like this: "For defense they had shields made of split and woven reeds and covered with deer hide." The smaller round shield may correspond to the Book of Mormon "buckler" (3 Nephi 3:26). [William J. Hamblin, "Armor in the Book of Mormon," in Warfare in the Book of Mormon, F.A.R.M.S., pp. 414-415]