- Subject
- Anthropometrics
- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- Transferred from the Department of Human Anatomy, Oxford, in 1937. Acquired for Oxford University (by Professor Arthur Thomson) from Francis Galton in 1895. Originally from Galton's Anthropometric Laboratory, London.
- Object type
- Anthropometric apparatus
- Dimensions
- Height: 146mm Width: 60mm Depth: 40mm
- Inventory No
- 14651
- Accession Number
- 1937-19
Description
A wooden block with one circular end topped with a shallow dish, at the other end of the block is a wire wrapped with green thread.
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