Object donated to the Vietnamese Heritage Museum by Huỳnh Đức Diễn
A traditional bronze balance scale, commonly used by food vendors in Vietnam to weigh produce and other goods in village market. Represents early trade practices in rural and urban Vietnamese markets before modern weighing devices.
After resettling in the U.S. as a refugee, Diêu Đức Huỳnh, currently residing in Louisiana, later returned to Vietnam and acquired this scale as part of his effort to preserve tangible reminders of Vietnamese daily life.
Donated by Diêu Đức Huỳnh to the Vietnamese Heritage Museum (VHM) in Santa Ana, California, in September 2022.