Kulack

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The Kulack (also Coulack) or Kulak was an East Indian measure of weight for dry goods such as grain and rice .

The measure was valid during the Dutch-Indian colonial period , especially on Java with Batavia . In the absence of their own, the Javanese measures, many Dutch measures were common here. Measures of length, for example, went to the English yard .

  • 1 Kulack = 7 ¼ Kättis / Cattis = 116 Tails / Tehls = 4460 grams
  • 1 timbang = 7 Kulack

literature

  • Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1. Leipzig: FA Brockhaus 1851.
  • Gustav Adolph Jahn : Dictionary of applied mathematics: a manual for use. Volume 1, Reichenbach'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1855.
  • Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Gottfried Basse publishing house, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Smaller Brockhaus'sches Conversations-Lexikon for manual use. Volume 3, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1856, p. 387.