Fan-shaped hair comb made from pale coloured wood with eleven very fine teeth split from the same piece of wood. The base of the teeth are bound with narrow brown string and this binding also seperates the teeth from each other. [JP 16/12/2004]

Collection type: Object
Description: Fan-shaped hair comb made from pale coloured wood with eleven very fine teeth split from the same piece of wood. The base of the teeth are bound with narrow brown string and this binding also seperates the teeth from each other. [JP 16/12/2004]
Geographical reference: Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea; Massim D’Entrecasteaux Islands Goodenough Island
Person: Field collector Diamond Jenness; PRM source Committee for Anthropology, University of Oxford
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1913
Date collected: By 1913
Acquisition information: Donated: 1913
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material String, Process Bound, Process Split
Dimensions: Length: max 218 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1919.58.57.2

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