Hair Comb
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Description
A wooden hair comb from the Malaita Island, Papua New Guinea. The comb is made from strips of wood bound and covered with plaited fibre of black palm and cane dyed red and yellow. It has one knotch on the top centre and 29 teeth and one broken.
Production place
The Pacific
Measurements
190mm (height), 78mm (width), 19mm (depth)
Accession number
0013/12
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