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MARKAM VALLEY NATIVE BALANCE OR SCALE
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Item Number: 08-1055
Actual Markam Valley
Cargo Cult native fabrication of a European traders balance or scale.
Made of four pieces with well shaped balance beam pivoted from the
suspension bar on a brad (nail). The pans made of coconut shells with a
hole in the bottom of each and suspended from copper wire and even
painted gold to simulate brass. The wire, nails and paint clearly
salvaged from trash at the airport. It does balance, largely due to the
friction in the pivot which makes it ineffective as a scale. Further,
the pan suspensions are not fixed allowing movement which negates the
equality of balance. The holes in the pans preclude their use for
granular material and the small size (9 1/2 overall width) makes it
useless for anything else. Surface soil/light encrustation overall. Ex.
Gunter Hintz Collection and to our knowledge, the only Cargo Cult
replication in private hands and perhaps surviving at all as all were
highly perishable and their creators were cannibals!
Layaway is available for this item.
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