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1952.2.31

Wooden hair comb with four teeth topped with an animal head (perhaps a ram?) [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 2/2/2006]

1952.2.31

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Collection type
Object
Description
Wooden hair comb with four teeth topped with an animal head (perhaps a ram?) [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 2/2/2006]
Geographical reference
Central Africa
Africa > Central Africa
Date / Period
Date made: Before 01/1952
Date collected
By January 1952
Acquisition information
Donated: 1952
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
Dimensions
Length: max 125 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1952.2.31
Research and responses

Related Documents File [1951.2 and 1951.6] - Letter from E. Ashworth Underwood [Director, The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum] to T. K. Penniman dated 30 January, 1951, inviting the Pitt Rivers Museum to send a representative to select items from the Wellcome collection, housed temporarily at the British Museum. [GI 4/2/2002]

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