Abacus

Held by

Barkerville Historic Town via Chinese Canadian Artifacts Project (UVic)

Level

item

Extent

length 60.8 cm; width 31.3 cm; height 165 cm

Scope & content

A large wood and metal school abacus. The artifact consists of a triangular metal base from which a large circular lathe turned segment rises vertically up to the undersurface of a wooden square area. Extending horizontally from one side of this square area to the opposing side are a total of ten circular metal rods. Upon each of these rods in turn has been placed a total if ten circular wooden beads which range in colour from green to red to blue to brown. N.B. Originally acquired from Aberdeenshire, England. Ph1 2006 Ph2 2007

Places

Barkerville

Location

• Barkerville, BC · city · confidence 90% · city:geonames · found as “Barkerville”

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Genre / form

Object

Harvested

2026-10-15T07:27:55Z · source datestamp n/a · ead

Digital objects at the source

• imageOpen original at source ↗HER36301.jpg