- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Wooden double comb with openwork rhomboid shape in the middle. Incised with lines and triangles. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 4/10/2005]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Possibly before 1878
- Date collected
- ?Prior to 1878
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Process Carved, Process Incised
- Dimensions
- Length: max 235 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.71.74 Other numbers: 59 PR Cat other PR nos: 3443
Search terms: Ornament, Toilet, Comb, Hair Ornament, Toilet Article
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