Bronze Objects
date: label: Accession Date
content: 3 Mar 1936
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Henry S. Washington
notes: label: Notes
content: From catalog card: "Each consists of a pair of connected rings decorated on top & with 3 spikes at back. Described by Dr. Daniel G. Brinton in Bull.of Free Mus. of Sd. & Art, Univ. of Pa., Vol.1, no.1, pp. 10-15, Phila., May, 1897, as Bronze Myrmex and supposedly a feature of offensive arnor of pugilists, being fastened to leather caestus covering hand or forearm. See: E.S.Morse — “On the so—called. bow—pullers of Antiquity". Essex Inst. Bul., Vol.26, Salem, Mass., 1894. He proves them no bow—pullers."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 4
place: label: Place
content: Italy (not certain), Europe
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 138216
label: USNM Number
content: A377367-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Object