Bracers

Copper alloy archer's bracer from Belgium, ca. 1752

Metropolitan museum of art, AN 2010.203

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Dutch late 16th century ivory bracer

Metropolitan museum of art, AN 29.158.136

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BRACERS like these WERE WORN BY ARCHERS TO PROTECT THE BOW ARM FROM THE RECOIL OF THE BOWSTRING

BRACERS like these WERE WORN BY ARCHERS TO PROTECT THE BOW ARM FROM THE RECOIL OF THE BOWSTRING

BRACERS like these WERE WORN BY ARCHERS TO PROTECT THE BOW ARM FROM THE RECOIL OF THE BOWSTRING

ST SEBASTIAN WAS ALSO THE PROTECTOR Of those suffering from plague or disease

BRACERS like these WERE WORN BY ARCHERS TO PROTECT THE BOW ARM FROM THE RECOIL OF THE BOWSTRING

BRACERS like these WERE WORN BY ARCHERS TO PROTECT THE BOW ARM FROM THE RECOIL OF THE BOWSTRING