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.126954.02
label: accession number
content: 17781
label: catalog number
content: 126954.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: compass
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 2 13/16 in; 1.905 cm x 7.14375 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 2 13/16 in; 1.905 cm x 7.14375 cm