- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Comb of bamboo with 12 teeth, top incised with geometric patterns. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 7/2/2006]
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1941
- Date collected
- By 1941
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1941
- Materials and processes
- Material Bamboo Plant, Process Carved, Process Incised
- Dimensions
- Length: max 204 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1941.2.39 Other numbers: 2988
- Research and responses
Related Documents File - Typewritten list of combs bought from Rev. A.H. Voyce. Also two old labels: 'Voyce Combs 28/3/36 Lot Reg. 25/5 but these not mentioned in correspondence. [rev:] Offertory bowl on plinth (SER-KYEM)' and 'Voyce Combs Trade. 23/3/36 Lot unlisted'. These labels were found unattached to any objects so it is unknown which objects they refer to. Also an old PRM label: 'COMBS: PACIFIC Beasley coll. SOLOMON IDS. BOUGAINVILLE' [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 8/2/2006]
Search terms: Ornament, Toilet, Comb, Toilet Article, Hair Ornament
Further items to explore
1954.8.72Comb of thin flat wood with openwork handle. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 3/2/2006]1954.8.72
1941.2.10Comb of bamboo with five teeth, the top carved into a human figure, partly blackened (burnt?) and partly stained white with ?lime. Between the teeth and the figure the comb is decorated with plaited black cane and orchid stem. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 7/2/2006]1941.2.10
1921.93.132Comb of wood with long projection on the top, inlaid with pearl shell and with a red palm leaf tuft round the middle. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 16/12/2004]1921.93.132
1950.10.1Hair comb formed of five wooden teeth bound at the top with ?cane. Bound together with the label with 1950.10.2 [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 10/12/2004]1950.10.1
1911.7.3Club of spatulate form with elaborately carved handle. The blade widens towards the end which is decorated with a wide transverse groove on both faces. The handle is flared below the blade and has an expanded, ornamental butt. [JC [OPS Move] 01/08/2016]1911.7.3
1938.36.1665.3Pearl shell nose piece. Oval and pennanular in form with squared off ends. [BS [OPS Move] 14/11/2016]1938.36.1665.3
1954.8.120Ornament; disc of white Tridacna shell with hatched triangles around the outer edge, overlaid with turtleshell with openwork designs. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 29/11/2005]1954.8.120
1979.21.19Bird's wing with white/brown speckled feathers, attached to a cane stick. [El.B 09/12/2008]1979.21.19