Support, torso
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- OBJECT TYPE
- corset
- DATE
- 1966
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2004.0103.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Hôpital Ste-Justine
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Montréal, Québec, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Pink (flesh tone) moulded polyethylene form; cream- colour leather lining, padding and covering on all edges; and medium-brown leather protective flap beneath left-side lacing; silver metal hardware (ie.eyelets, etc.); buff-colour cotton (?) string lace; medium brown leather straps form over-shoulder openings, and are fitted with protective casing made of opaque synthetic. Off-white coated fabric tape covers interior surface of corset at attachment point of over-shoulder straps.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 31.5 cm
- Width
- 27.0 cm
- Height
- 17.5 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Medical Technology
- Category
- Assistive technologies
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Ste Justine
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Québec
- City
- Montréal
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Quebec
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
3rd corset made of polyethylene worn by Mario Fagnan, one of a series of orthopaedic devices made for his use. At the time this corset was made, Mario was 11 years old. This support, and crutches 2004.0104 were fitted at l'Hopital Ste. Justine in Nov. 1966. See also crutches 2004.0104 - Function
-
To protect and provide physical support to the wearer's torso. - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- None evident.
- Missing
- Appears complete.
- Finish
- Pink (flesh tone) moulded polyethylene form; cream- colour leather lining, padding and covering on all edges; and medium-brown leather protective flap beneath left-side lacing; silver metal hardware (ie.eyelets, etc.); buff-colour cotton (?) string lace; medium brown leather straps form over-shoulder openings, and are fitted with protective casing made of opaque synthetic. Off-white coated fabric tape covers interior surface of corset at attachment point of over-shoulder straps.
- Decoration
- N/A
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Hôpital Ste-Justine, Support, torso, 1966, Artifact no. 2004.0103, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2004.0103.001/
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