Object Details
Description
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.
There is no maker's mark.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Dr. Richard Lodish American School Teaching Collection
ID Number
2014.0293.02
catalog number
2014.0293.02
accession number
2014.0293
Object Name
abacus
Physical Description
wood (frame, beads, stand material)
metal (wires material)
Measurements
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
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Abacus
Science & Mathematics
Arithmetic Teaching
Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Education
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1692739