- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Wooden comb with teeth and handle cut in one piece. Handle carved in openwork. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 14/12/2004]
- Person
- Field collector James Arthur Hadfield
- Field collector Emma Hadfield
- Field collector London Missionary Society
- PRM source Irene Marguerite Beasley
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1954
- Date collected
- By 1954
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1954
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Process Carved, Process Notched
- Dimensions
- Length: max 330 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1954.8.74 Other numbers: 260
- Research and responses
The field collector could be James Hadfield [see other Beasley entries] [AP 2/8/2002]
Search terms: Toilet, Ornament, Comb, Toilet Article, Hair Ornament
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