Prosthetic Leg
date: label: date made
content: n.d.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A coal miner made this artificial lower limb some time before 1977, when the museum acquired it. He used available materials, including a metal bucket for a socket, nails, chain and chicken wire for securing the parts, and a leather boot.
topic: label: Subject
content: Disabilities
label: Subject
content: Prosthesis
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Disabilities
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content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Veterans Administration
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0648.33
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0648.33
label: accession number
content: 1979.0648
objectType: label: Object Name
content: leg, prosthetic
label: Object Name
content: prosthesis
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 3/4 in x 25 3/4 in x 11 in; 19.685 cm x 65.405 cm x 27.94 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 26 in x 7 3/4 in x 7 1/4 in; 66.04 cm x 19.685 cm x 18.415 cm