Prosthesis, leg
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- OBJECT TYPE
- adult/left leg/below knee
- DATE
- 1880
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2002.0877.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- artificial leg
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- wood (including willow], metal, leather [including rawhide] and fabric [including canvas] components.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 83.0 cm
- Width
- 13.5 cm
- Height
- 15.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Medical Technology
- Category
- Assistive technologies
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- This artificial leg used 1880 - 1885.
- Canada
-
Part of a large collection of medical artifacts, archival material & trade literature transferred to CSTM in 2002 from the former History of Medicine Museum, Toronto, ON. - Function
-
Served as functional imitation limb for below-knee amputee. - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- None, save UHN catalogue no. "X934.25" printed by hand in white ink on inside on metal side support. "1" and "6" [or "9"] stamped into side supports.
- Missing
- Laces on front and back are damaged: some sections may be missing.
- Finish
- Willow wood bucket covered by rawhide [unconfirmed]; wood appears covered by thin coating of plaster, painted pale pink/flesh tone; brown leather thigh corset adjusted by leather laces; silver metal side bars [possibly chrome plated]; light brown leather sole pads underside of foot; khaki coloured woven fabric strap with metal eyelets aids in positioning and securing limb to thigh corset.
- Decoration
- N/A
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Unknown Manufacturer, Prosthesis, leg, 1880, Artifact no. 2002.0877, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2002.0877.001/
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