comb
- Museum number
- Af1902,-.172
- Description
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Small comb with four teeth (one is missing) of soft wood, with incised zigzags and lozenges.
- Production date
- 1895-1899 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 11.30 centimetres
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Width: 3.60 centimetres
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Depth: 1.10 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1902
- Acquisition notes
- Af1902,-.167 to 184 were given by Henry Ferdinand Tomalin, son of the owner of the clothing firm Jaeger, who joined the firm in 1899 and in 1915 took over managing it (see his biography). He recorded that he had collected them in the "region between Salisbury Rhodesia [now Harare, in north-east Zimbabwe], and Tete [in Mozambique] on the Zambezi", and there is no more precise record of whether they came from the Zimbabwe or Mozambique legs of his journey. They are here all described as from Zimbabwe and are dated in the late 1890s.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1902,-.172
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Af1902C3.172 (old CDMS no.)