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Harness
- Description
- Leather, metal and rope pieces that form a draft horse harness.
Components tentatively identified as:
a: Hame and trace collar
b: bit, bit strap
c: leather strap (unattached, not identified)
d: rope with metal clips
e: halter
f: main body components, including breast collar, trace, back strap, bre…
- Title
- Draft Horse Harness
- Original Owner
- Originally belonged to donor's father, Wolfgang Doehler
- Category
- DISTRIBUTION AND TRANSPORTATION OBJECTS
- Sub-Category
- LAND TRANSPORTATION, ANIMAL POWERED
- Description
- Leather, metal and rope pieces that form a draft horse harness.
Components tentatively identified as:
a: Hame and trace collar
b: bit, bit strap
c: leather strap (unattached, not identified)
d: rope with metal clips
e: halter
f: main body components, including breast collar, trace, back strap, breeching, belly band
- History Of Use
- Harness was purchased by Wolfgang Doehler for his hobby farm in the Kispiox Valley in the 1980s. It was second hand when purchased from an unnamed Bulkley Valley farmer. Harness could be over 50 years old, but exact date is unknown.
- Number Of Parts
- 6
- Accession No.
- 2017.107.1 a-f
- Type of Record
- Museum Artifact
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