Chinese Magnetic Compass
Chinese Magnetic Compass
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- Description
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- compass
- Measurements
- overall: 3/4 in x 2 13/16 in; 1.905 cm x 7.14375 cm
- overall: 3/4 in x 2 13/16 in; 1.905 cm x 7.14375 cm
- ID Number
- PH.126954.02
- accession number
- 17781
- catalog number
- 126954.02
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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