4280 – Scold’s Bridle Mask

Physical description:

A scold's bridle with unusually elaborate decorative elements, including horns, giving it a mask-like appearance. Made of now rusty sheet metal (iron).

Museum classification:

Persecution

Information:

A scold's bridle, sometimes called a witch's bridle, a gossip's bridle, a brank's bridle, or simply branks, was an instrument of punishment, as a form of public humiliation.

Resource:

Object

Materials:

Metal (iron)

Copyright ownership:

MWM

A scold's bridle, sometimes called a witch's bridle, a gossip's bridle, a brank's bridle, or simply branks, was an instrument of punishment, as a form of public humiliation.