The error is in lines 5 and 6, below the materials.
I extracted the skeleton like this: Archangel > SMD > 3D Max > FBX > Autodesk Maya 2017 > MA > Alias Maya 6.0.1. You need to "downgrade" the MA scene so that Alias Maya can read it, and the dimensions will be messed up in Maya, but this is a minor issue that can be easily fixed: where Scale X, Z, Y is set to 2.54, set the parameters to 1, and that's it. And when importing the SMD into 3D Max, the X, Z, Y coordinates get messed up; I first rotated it 90 degrees and then set the coordinates to 0.
The problem is not with the Mesh, but with the fact that you only have 1 Item specified in MaterialQuantities, and you have 2 Meshes, so it's logical that the material won't be read at all.
Archangel > SMD > Autodesk Maya 2017 with the mesa plugin > MA > Alias Maya 6.0.1. I haven't tried it, but just in case.
Regarding your question, I'll try to figure it out and write to you in a private message, and I'll also duplicate it here.