Measuring stick

Museum number:
3-27339
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3117
Description:
Measuring stick; carved rectangular section of hard, heavy wood; length. 83.8 cm. Context of use: Used to measure cloth; formerly used as a land measure but replaced by the meter "some 50 years ago"(1890?). Purchased from a young weaver (Jose Martinez), apparently Zapotec.
Donor:
Bancroft Library (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico
Culture or time period:
Zapotec
Collector:
J. N. Bowman
Collection date:
ca. 1940
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
7.3 Weights, Measures, and Computing Devices
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Measuring stick, accession number 3-27339, described as Measuring stick; carved rectangular section of hard, heavy wood; length. 83.8 cm. Context of use: Used to measure cloth; formerly used as a land measure but replaced by the meter "some 50 years ago"(1890?). Purchased from a young weaver (Jose Martinez), apparently Zapotec.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Measuring stick, accession number 3-27339, described as Measuring stick; carved rectangular section of hard, heavy wood; length. 83.8 cm. Context of use: Used to measure cloth; formerly used as a land measure but replaced by the meter "some 50 years ago"(1890?). Purchased from a young weaver (Jose Martinez), apparently Zapotec.

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