VHM_0081

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Bronze scale
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Description

A traditional bronze balance scale, commonly used by food vendors in Vietnam to weigh produce and other goods in the marketplace before modern weighing devices. After resettling in the U.S. as a refugee, Huỳnh Đức Diêu, currently residing in Louisiana, returned to Vietnam and acquired this scale as part of his effort to preserve tangible reminders of daily Vietnamese life.

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Object donated to the Vietnamese Heritage Museum by Huỳnh Đức Diễn

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