Chinese Magnetic Compass
notes: label: Description
content: Divie Bethune McCartee (1820-1900) was an American medical missionary in China and Japan who donated many ethnological items to the Smithsonian. This Chinese magnetic compass, given in 1873, is one of them.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.126954.01
label: accession number
content: 17781
label: catalog number
content: 126954.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: compass
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9/16 in x 3 9/16 in; 1.42875 cm x 9.04875 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 3 5/8 in; 1.5875 cm x 9.2075 cm