51/758/1-2

A hame is the rigid wooden frame of a horse's harness and would be attached to a padded leather collar. This is a pair of nineteenth century wooden hames with metal chains and fixing points. Nothing is known of their origins.

1 hames [pair]: wood, metal: worn condition

Lavinia Smith Catalogue (D60/28) - 'A list of the contents of the East Hendred museum. July 5 1940 // Horse furniture // 58-61. Four pairs of wooden hames, the smal [sic] ones belonged to Horace Prior's grandfather's donkey about 1890.', Heritage of the Hendreds Exhibition 1969 - 'Catalogue of Exhibits // Number 332 // Wooden Hames // Lent by MERL Miss Smith c.' (The catalogue description could also be in reference to 51/757/1-2, 51/756/1-2, 51/577/1-2 and 51/578/1-2)

Wood, Metal

Rippon, Miss Dorothy May Lyddon (Agent)
Prior, Horace