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  • Object number
    59/333/1-2
  • Exhibition
    Playing fields: Our Sporting Life in the countryside
  • Description
    2 leather straps or jesses used for tethering falcon birds, one end is attached to the bird the other to a leash, which is taken off for flying.
    These two short leather straps are jesses used for tethering falcon birds – one end is attached to the bird and the other to a leash, which is taken off for flying. The earliest accounts of falconry, the art of hunting prey using trained birds, date back to 2000 BC.
  • Physical description
    2 jesses: leather
  • Object name
    Falconry jess
  • Material
    Leather
  • Associated subject
    HUNTING : chasing
    Falcon
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