Comb carved with a broad high standing handle, which has three lozenges and an excavated central line bordered by fretted ridges. Flat surfaces are decorated with hatching, raised bands of zigzags and rectangular cross-hatching, making raised square knobs. The top of the handle has sloping shoulders coming to a narrow projection. The handle narrows to a waist and then widens to form a semicircular base decorated with incised and openwork decoration. Eleven long teeth. [ASh [OPS move] 18/5/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Comb carved with a broad high standing handle, which has three lozenges and an excavated central line bordered by fretted ridges. Flat surfaces are decorated with hatching, raised bands of zigzags and rectangular cross-hatching, making raised square knobs. The top of the handle has sloping shoulders coming to a narrow projection. The handle narrows to a waist and then widens to form a semicircular base decorated with incised and openwork decoration. Eleven long teeth. [ASh [OPS move] 18/5/2016]
Geographical reference: Nigeria
Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria
Person: Field collector Girling; PRM source Ipswich Museum; PRM source Patricia Margaret Maclaren Butler
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1951
Date collected: By 1951
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1966
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Process Carved, Process Decorated, Process Incised
Dimensions: Depth: max 10 mm, Width: max 71 mm, Length: max 366 mm, Length 131 mm teeth
Object numbers: Accession number: 1966.1.455 Other numbers: 1951.167