Iron comb set in wooden handle, used in making carpets. There is some incised decoration on one side of the metal comb featuring circles and scalloped designs. [BS [OPS Move] 17/3/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Iron comb set in wooden handle, used in making carpets. There is some incised decoration on one side of the metal comb featuring circles and scalloped designs. [BS [OPS Move] 17/3/2017]
Geographical reference: Morocco
Africa > Northern Africa > Morocco
Person: Field collector Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton; PRM source Antoinette Powell-Cotton
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1940
Date collected: 1930 or 1936?
Acquisition information: Donated: 1940
Materials and processes: Material Iron Metal, Material Wood Plant, Process Carved, Process Incised, Process Forged (Metal)
Dimensions: Length: max 169 mm, Depth: max 136 mm, Width: max 89 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1940.10.47 Other numbers: 116
Research and responses: Major Powell-Cotton mounted expeditions to Morocco in 1930 and 1936, and it seems likely that this object was acquired during one of these two trips [RTS 25/8/2004].