Coal Miner's Prosthetic Leg
Coal Miner's Prosthetic Leg
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- Description (Brief)
- 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.
- Object Name
- leg, prosthetic
- prosthesis
- date made
- n.d.
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- leather (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 3/4 in x 25 3/4 in x 11 in; 19.685 cm x 65.405 cm x 27.94 cm
- overall: 26 in x 7 3/4 in x 7 1/4 in; 66.04 cm x 19.685 cm x 18.415 cm
- ID Number
- 1979.0648.33
- catalog number
- 1979.0648.33
- accession number
- 1979.0648
- Credit Line
- Veterans Administration
- subject
- Disabilities
- Prosthesis
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Disabilities
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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