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Description

Iron weight with a cylindrical and slightly conical shape, it has a hook for fastening to the scale of which it is a part. It has the capacity to counterbalance the amount of four Kilograms.

This artifact, so common today, has important historical relevance when it comes to reflecting on the object that solved the need to weigh merchandise for trade 2000 years ago. An example of the above, we have the Sonoran trade practiced from before the colonial era to the present day. Hernández Silva (2002), indicates that the Yaqui peoples have never been oblivious to it, therefore, although for a long time their participation in the economy was only considered from being labor, they never stopped actively contributing to the economy. local as small-scale producers, being hunters, fishermen and/or collectors of an infinity of merchandise that they sold in the production centers in Sonora and in the new urban and commercial localities that were beginning to develop in those territories. In such a context, the present object testifies to the commercial activities of the tribe.