comb
- Museum number
- Af.8018
- Description
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Comb carved from yellow wood, with at the handle a man sitting on and playing a drum.
- Production date
- 1872 (before)
- Dimensions
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Height: 20 centimetres
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Width: 5.20 centimetres
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Depth: 3.10 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Registerd as from West Africa, but attributed by W B Fagg to the Bakongo on the Lower Congo.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1872
- Acquisition notes
- Af.8017 to Af.8023 were presented by the collector R G Whitfield on 31 July 1872. They are a miscellaneous group of African objects.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af.8018
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Af1872C1.8018 (old CDMS no.)