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Object Number
66-19-20/22981
Display Title
Scale used to weigh beeswax, made of wood, wire and string
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Scale, wood crosspiece w/top loop, 2 fiber webbed wire circular plates suspended
Classification
- Tools
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America
/
Mexico
/
San Luis Potosi
Additional Geographic Terms
San Luis Potosi, State of; Tamazunchale, first village N of
Materials
Wood, Vegetable fiber, Metal
Dimensions
Overall: 45.4 x 40.4 x 13.5 cm (17 7/8 x 15 7/8 x 5 5/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
66-19-20/22981
Credit Line
Gift of the Botanical Museum, Harvard University, 1966
Provenance
Intermediary
Dr. Richard Evans Schultes
Collector
Louis Bierweiler
(before 1964)
Donor
Botanical Museum, Harvard University
(1966)
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