Models of bones of the wrist and finger, 19th century

Models of bones of the wrist and finger, 19th century

Models

Papier-mache

Osteology

Carpal bones

Metacarpal bones

Finger phalanges

Trapezoid bone

Trapezium bone

Hamate bone

Capitate bone

Triquetrum bone

Pistiform bone

Lunate bone

Scaphoid bone

Large wooden brown model of bones of the wrist and finger. Wrist model displays the eight carpal bones: hamate, capitate, trapezoid, trapezium, pisiform, triquetrum, lunate, and scaphoid. Finger model is in three parts. The eight wrist bones are held together with wooden pegs and metal screws. There is one hole on top of wrist model with no peg or screw.

Unknown

19th century

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Warren Anatomical Museum: 21538

model

1 model

Models (representations)

physical object

Warren Anatomical Museum Catalog Number: 21538

These wrist and finger models were used as teaching aids at Harvard Medical School throughout the twentieth, and possibly late nineteenth, century. In November 2013, the Program for Medical Education at Harvard Medical School transferred these models, along with several Dwight-Emerton models, to the Warren Anatomical Museum.

Model

Wrist: 16 W x 27 D x 14 H cm; Finger: Piece one:7 W x 22 D x 6 H cm; Piece two: 6 W x 14 D x 4.5 H cm; Piece three: 5 W x 9 D x 3.5 H cm