Desktop Numeral Frame or Abacus
notes: label: Description
content: This tabletop teaching abacus has ten horizontal wires held in a wooden frame on a wooden stand. Each wire has ten large wooden beads. Each row of beads is a different color, with the colors from top row to bottom red, pink, blue-gray, orange, turquoise, yellow, white, green, brown, and black.
label: Description
content: There is no maker's mark.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Education
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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: Arithmetic Teaching
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Richard Lodish American School Teaching Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.0293.02
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0293.02
label: accession number
content: 2014.0293
objectType: label: Object Name
content: abacus
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (frame, beads, stand material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (wires material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 73.7 cm x 56.5 cm x 29.2 cm; 29 1/32 in x 22 1/4 in x 11 1/2 in