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Line marker. Chinese

Title:

Line marker

Ethnic groups:

Chinese

Territory:

river Sanhobe, Ussuri Krai, Primorsky Oblast

Date:

late 19th - early 20th cemtury

Collectors:

Museum of the Peoples of the USSR

Material:

Wood; metal: iron; threads (cord)

Dimensions:

length 19.0; width 4.3; height 9.0

Number:

РЭМ 8761-11102

Annotation:

A thin twisted cord is wound on a wooden spool fixed on a round iron stem with a bent handle. The stem is passed through iron ears on a wooden bar. The bar is rectangular, with corners cut off on one end. Two rectangular cavities are gouged in the bar, the spool with the cord being secured in one of them, and a piece of dying substance in the other. The Chinese used such cord line markers to apply marks when cutting or sawing logs in the construction of dwelling houses and other buildings.

Albums:
“... You can rely on me”: Vladimir Arseniev’s collections in the Russian Museum of Ethnography
Rus:
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