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1950.5.46

Wooden hair comb with pointed handle. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 3/2/2006]

1950.5.46

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Collection type
Object
Description
Wooden hair comb with pointed handle. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 3/2/2006]
Geographical reference
Fiji
Oceania > Melanesia > Fiji
Viti Levu Suva
Person
Field collector George Kingsley Roth
PRM source George Kingsley Roth
Date / Period
Date made: 1949
Date collected
By 1950
Acquisition information
Donated: 1950
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
Dimensions
Length: max 285 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1950.5.46
Research and responses

This object was examined on the 29/30th November 2012 by Lucie Carreau as part of the work of the AHRC-funded project 'Fijian Art: Political Power, Sacred Value, Social Transformation and Collecting Since the 18th Century' (2011-2014). Her notes read: "Note received from S[teven]. Hooper about 3 Fijian combs in MAA (Cambridge), very similar to this one: similar combs made in kabara, Lau Group in the 1970s/1980s, from bau wood, as gifts or as orders from Suva handicraft sellers (info sent to L Carreau 3/11/2011)." [FB 30/11/2012]

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