Wooden comb with five teeth and long handle with a square and a rhomboid shape. Incised with faint cross-hatched lines and triangles. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 2/2/2006]

Collection type: Object
Description: Wooden comb with five teeth and long handle with a square and a rhomboid shape. Incised with faint cross-hatched lines and triangles. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 2/2/2006]
Geographical reference: Sudan, Republic of
Africa > Northern Africa > Sudan, Republic of; Eastern Sudan Red Sea Province
Cultural groups: Bedawi; Beni Amer
Person: Field collector Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton; Field collector Diana Powell-Cotton; PRM source Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton; PRM source Diana Powell-Cotton
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1934
Date collected: 1933 - 1934
Acquisition information: Donated: 1935
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Process Incised, Process Carved
Dimensions: Length: max 185 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1935.20.27 Other numbers: 99
Research and responses: According to the donor cards, this Miss Powell-Cotton is Diana Powell-Cotton, not Miss A. Powell-Cotton. [CW 13/4/2000] According to the Ethnologue Online, Bedawi is the term that should be used. Hadendoa (or Hadendowa) is a dialect of Bedawi found on the Red Sea in Sudan. “Bedawi” is the people’s own name, with “Beni-Amer” used as a name for some of the people. [CW 13/4/2000]