Balance
- Museum number:
- 9-17496
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090017496
- Accession number:
- Acc.3991
- Description:
- Balance, wooden beam( 60.3 cm long) with inserted metal knife edge and tongue. Ends diagonally drilled knobs trimmed off and aluminum sleeves put on. One pan brass, one pan iron and smaller; pans hung by leather straps; seven makeweight rings on brass an side.
- Donor:
- Lawrence E. Dawson
- Collection place:
- Pakistan
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Balances (scales)
- Function:
- 7.3 Weights, Measures, and Computing Devices
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Images:
- Legacy documentation: