Comb of separate wooden teeth joined together with plant fibre woven in decorative patterns. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 1/2/2006]

Collection type: Object
Description: Comb of separate wooden teeth joined together with plant fibre woven in decorative patterns. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 1/2/2006]
Geographical reference: Congo, Republic of
Africa > Central Africa > Congo, Republic of
Person: Field collector John Spencer Noldwritt; PRM source George R. Harding
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1891
Date collected: By 1891
Acquisition information: Purchased: 05/1891
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Plant Fibre, Process Woven
Dimensions: Length: max 140 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1891.50.26
Research and responses: Related Documents File - Letter from Harding to Balfour dated 9 May 1891 enclosed with the collection. In it he says, 'If I issue a list of the ... Noldwritt Collection I will send you one but there is little to list now as I am constantly selling from it. The name of the collector was: J. S. Noldwritt [illegible initials] he was, I believe, in the shipping trade, and when he retired collected many of the specimens of during his pleasure travels & latterly used to lecture for the benefit of charities. I bought the collection from his Executors. ...' [See file for full text]. [MOB 25/9/2001]