Covering, Animal

Description

Bull blinder of leather and metal belt buckles and rivets. Heavy leather face cover with heavy leather eye covers, domed, riveted to face cover. A leather belt and buckle is stitched to each top corner which fit over the horns of the bull. Another belt and buckle is secured to the bottom corners (belt to one, buckle to other) which passed under the bulls throat to hold the blinder tight to the face.

Notes

Used to blind bulls when near to cows or, as Eldress Emma B. King put it, to "prevent the bull from trundling the cow." Blog post on this piece: https://shakerml.wordpress.com/2017/08/30/its-not-what-you-think-it-is/