Comb of nineteen separate teeth bound with plant fibre. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 25/10/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Comb of nineteen separate teeth bound with plant fibre. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 25/10/2005]
Geographical reference: Samoa
Oceania > Polynesia > Samoa
Person: Field collector Joseph King; PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History; PRM source Department of Comparative Anatomy, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1874
Date collected: By 1874
Acquisition information: Transferred: 1891, uncertain Found unentered: 2005
Materials and processes: Material Plant Fibre, Material Wood Plant, Process Bound
Dimensions: Length: max 130 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 2005.123.1
Research and responses: In the George Rolleston archive (Ashmolean Museum) there is a hand-written list of objects presented by Rev. Joseph King to the Natural History Museum. A copy of this list is in the RDF, together with a copy of a letter from Rev. J. King to George Rolleston mentioning that he is forwarding a parcel of "curiosities'. [AS 13/03/2012] Note however that this object is not listed there and must have been received on another occasion [AP 05/09/2012]