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Doubletree harness owned by the Lyles family

1880s - 1890s

Lyles Station, Gibson County, Indiana, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A doubletree harness consisting of a wood evener bar (central piece) connected to two wood single trees (end pieces) with iron joints. There is an iron ring at the center of the evener bar and iron hooks at both ends of the single trees.

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Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture — original record ↗

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Catalog reference: 2012.155.4

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