snuff comb; comb (hair ornaments)

General View of Whole of Horniman Museum object no 2749
Detail view of part of Horniman Museum object no 2749
General View of Whole of Horniman Museum object no 2749 Detail view of part of Horniman Museum object no 2749

Comb made of a single piece of bone. The top part is pentagonal shaped and the comb has five long teeth.

For a related example, but with incised, darkened decorative motifs see Natal Museum (accession number 814B) in L Van Schalkwyk, 1996, 214, catalogue number A26 and Patricia Davison, 1976,136, figure 49. The Natal Museum comb is said to be provenanced to Zululand and came to the Museum in 1948 from the Estate of Lady Saunders. See also Local History Museums, Durban (accession number 95 / 1389) in KwaZulu Cultural Museum and Local History Museums, 1996, 214, catalogue number A25 from the old Durban Museum collection. References: Davison, Patricia, 1976 KwaZulu Cultural Museum and Local History Museums, 1996

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
2749
Date
19th century
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 153 mm x 22 mm x 1 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
bone
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
In storage
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