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59/333/1-2
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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
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