The Prince and the Plunder

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Category: Manacles

Fetters worn by the emperor’s prisoners

Published June 18, 2024 / by Andrew Heavens / Leave a Comment

What: Two sets of fetters said to have been worn by the prisoners of Emperor Tewodros

Where: The National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Rd, Chelsea, London SW3 4HT

The database describes “two sets of manacles owned by Sir Charles Fraser and acquired by him in Abyssinia during the Abyssinian campaign, 1868; a set of iron leg manacles joined with a three linked chain; one set of iron manacle which seems to be incomplete as there is no closing mechanism.

There is a photo of one of them published here.

NAM Accession Number
1965-04-47- and 1965-04-47-1

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Part of a captive’s chain last seen in Leeds

Published August 30, 2022 / by Andrew Heavens / Leave a Comment

What: “A portion of chain, as worn by a female Abyssinian prisoner”

Where: Unknown

Part of the catalogue for the National Exhibition of Works of Art in Leeds

Description

One of 21 artefacts from the Abyssinian expedition put on show at the National Exhibition of Works of Art in Leeds in 1868

According to the exhibition’s catalogue, it was lent by T.P. (or W.) Martin, 33rd Regiment. There are no details on what happened to it after the show closed in October that year.

Sources

National Exhibition of Works of Art, at Leeds, 1868 : official catalogue

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