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Cattle and equipment list, Chinese

Date Published

:  Letter - Business
:  Vernacular
:  Scattered Legacy

Cattle and equipment list, Chinese

Image Courtesy of: Yackandandah Museum

Cattle and equipment list, Chinese

Furniture and household goods

極細枱,又四張 — very small tables, another four

布二張 — two pieces/lengths of cloth

圓枱一張 — one round table

大枱四方二張 — two large square tables

小枱兩張 — two small tables

[君女/君文]床一張 — one [type uncertain] bed

又架大方床一張 — another large square framed bed

時辰鐘一只 — one clock

Dairy equipment and cattle

牛奶盤六只 — six milk pans

牛種一只 — one breeding bull

牛母廿四只 — twenty-four cows

肥牛母壹只 — one fattened cow

牛母仔一拾只 — ten female calves

牛仔廿只 — twenty calves

又牛仔四只 — another four calves

The two leftmost cattle entries are difficult to read:

牛六/公七只 — seven [bullocks or male cattle?]

牛分鉤八只 — eight [possibly cattle chains, hooks or related implements]