Weights (5)
notes: label: Description
content: Five small brass weights with geometric patterns. Bruno Kisch, who bough these in Paris for the National Museum of History and Technology, believed them to be Ashanti. We now think they were made in Paris, for use in West Africa.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. Bruno Kisch
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.319527
label: catalog number
content: 319527
label: accession number
content: 239022
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Weights
label: Object Type
content: Weights
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: base weight 4: 7/16 in x 11/16 in; 1.11125 cm x 1.74625 cm
label: Measurements
content: weight 3: 3/8 in x 1/2 in x 7/16 in; .9525 cm x 1.27 cm x 1.11125 cm
label: Measurements
content: weight 5: 1/4 in; .635 cm
label: Measurements
content: weight 2: 1/2 in x 5/16 in x 1/4 in; 1.27 cm x .79375 cm x .635 cm
label: Measurements
content: weight 4: 5/16 in; .79375 cm
label: Measurements
content: weight 1: 1 1/8 in x 7/8 in x 3/16 in; 2.8575 cm x 2.2225 cm x .47625 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: museum housing: 1/2 in x 3 in x 4 7/8 in; 1.27 cm x 7.62 cm x 12.3825 cm