Collection

Scale pan and vertical balance

Made:: 1801-1900 in Africa

maker:: Ashanti people

Scale pan and vertical balance, copper, yshaped support to rest pan on, pivoted, Ashanti tribe, West African, 19th century

Details

Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A78966

Materials:: copper and pan, brass

type:: scales - weighing device

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Parts

Scale pan for vertical balance

Scale pan for vertical balance

Materials:: copper and pan, brass

Object Number:: A78966/1

type:: scale pan

Vertical balance without scale pan, with y-shaped support to rest pan on

Vertical balance without scale pan, with y-shaped support to rest pan on

Materials:: copper and pan, brass

Object Number:: A78966/2

type:: balance