- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Comb with many small wooden teeth, the top bound with plant fibre strips to form a decorative ribbed pattern. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 15/3/2005]
- Person
- Field collector William Coleman Piercy
- Field collector Universities' Mission to Central Africa
- PRM source William Coleman Piercy
- PRM source Faith Piercy
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1935
- Date collected
- By 1935
- Acquisition information
- Bequeathed: 1935 Acquired: 1939
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Plant Fibre, Process Carved, Process Bound
- Dimensions
- Length: max 58 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1939.3.124
- Research and responses
Related Documents File - Three letters from Mrs. [?Faith] Piercy to Thomas Penniman and Beatrice Blackwood to organise the transfer of the articles her husband bequeathed to the Pitt Rivers Museum. RDF also includes notes on 'Chinyansa specimens, Nyassaland (KOTAKOTA)' and 'Specimens from other regions', and additional 'Notes by William Coleman Piercy'. [GI 10/12/2001]
Search terms: Toilet, Ornament, Comb, Toilet Article, Hair Ornament
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