- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Bismar type weighing beam with basket-pan. The weighing beam is made of wood, cylindrical shaped tapering slightly towards the perforated end. The wicker-woven basket is circular in shape and suspended with string from four points. [CW [OPS Move] 20/2/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Tamil Nadu Chennai (Madras) Kerala Karnataka Malabar Coast
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1912
- Date collected
- By 1912
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 30/08/1912
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Process Basketry, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Width: max 242 mm, Height: max 40 mm, Length: max 710 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1912.34.1
- Research and responses
Edgar Thurston donated another object from India, see 1900.8.1 and may therefore be the same person [AP 5/8/2002]
Search terms: Measurement, Medicine, Trade, Basketry, Steelyard Balance, Medical Accessory
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