Penitent's belt
- Made:
- 1701-1900
Penitent's belt, composed of looped rectangles of brass wire with protuding ends, for torture, European, 18th to 19th centuries
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A634602
- Materials:
- brass
- Measurements:
-
length 745 mm
width 48 mm
height 6 mm
- type:
- belts