Suan-p'an, or Chinese Abacus
notes: label: Description
content: This abacus fits in a black wooden box with a wooden cross piece. Eleven parallel bamboo rods carry seven beads each. Two beads are above the cross piece, five below. The beads are rounded, like those on Chinese abaci. One rod is broken and another cracked. The abacus was received as a gift from the Department of Mathematics of Brown University in 1973. There are no marks by a maker.
place: label: place made
content: China
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Abacus
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Many Voices, One Nation
label: Exhibition
content: Many Voices, One Nation
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Brown University Department of Mathematics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.304722.01
label: catalog number
content: 304722.01
label: accession number
content: 304722
objectType: label: Object Name
content: abacus
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bamboo (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 cm x 19 cm x 12 cm; 25/32 in x 7 15/32 in x 4 23/32 in