Wrist guard
A wrist guard, or bracer, used to prevent the bowstring from chafing the wrist when shooting an arrow. The two rectangular perforations at each side of this bone wrist guard are for a strap.
Acquired during the voyage of the HMS Blossom under Captain Beechey, 1825-8
Acquired during the voyage of the HMS Blossom under Captain Beechey, 1825-8
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 51/1916/54
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Tools for farm and craft
- Collection Area Region
- North America
- Material
- ivory | | | |
- Common Name
- wrist guard
- Simple Name
- wrist guard
- Production Town
- Production County
- Bering Strait / Northwest Alaska
- Production Country
- United States of America
- Production Person Initials
- Production Person Surname
- Production Year Low
- 1826
- Production Year High
- 1827
