- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Comb of separate bamboo teeth bound together with string. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 1/2/2006]
- Geographical reference
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1911
- Date collected
- By 1911
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1911
- Materials and processes
- Material Bamboo Plant, Material String, Process Bound
- Dimensions
- Length: max 160 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1911.64.103
- Research and responses
Mountmorres is probably 6th Viscount William Geoffrey Bouchard de Montmorency Mountmorres (1872-1936), who embarked on a journey through the Congo in 1904. He also wrote papers on West Africa: 'Maize, cocoa and rubber: Hints on their production in West Africa', 'The commercial possibilities of West Africa' and 'The Congo Independent State, a report'. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 4/10/2005]
Search terms: Toilet, Ornament, Comb, Hair Ornament, Toilet Article
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