Description (Labels & Markings)
Thomas collection label adhered to rear: '442 | Irua | 2504N / Comb, fork-like, carved one side string twined round prongs.'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card Z 12753[.1-2]: 'Comb, fork-like, carved on one side, pointed handle string twined round prongs.'
Edited in several hands to read: '2 combs; 1 fork-like [?c.e.f.] string twined round prongs; the other carved 1 side, pointed handle'
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in black ink: 'T10.442'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in pencil: '2504'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Object found is a long fork like comb with 7 prongs and pointed handle, the prongs wrapped with fibre in the centre. Carved with zig zag patterns on 1 side.
Event Date 16/5/2001
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Related Documents)
See E 1910.118 and E 1913.3 records for further details about the Thomas Collection from Nigeria.
Event Date 7/5/2001
Author: maa

Context (Display)
On display in the 'Origins of the Afro Comb: 6000 years of Culture, Politics and Identity' exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum July 1-November 3 2013. The exhibition label states: 'Hair combs
Made from wood (33),
bamboo (34),
midribs of palm leaf
and cotton thread (35)
and bamboo and cotton thread (36)
Before 1914
From Irrua, South Nigeria
Esan, Edo Culture. Made by Esan Artists
Collected by N.W. Thomas. On loan from Museum of Archaeology
and Anthropology
Z 12746; Z 12746; Z 12753; Z 12753'.
Event Date 22/7/2013
Author: Remke van der Velden

Conservation (Assessment Only)
CON.2015.1914 | Assessment Only
Event Date 17/1/2020
Author: Kirstie French

Description (Physical description)
Comb carved from wood. Narrow rectangle with seven tapering prongs, sloping shoulders and a long tapering handle; decorated with lines and zigzags in relief; length of cotton twined around prongs.
Event Date 29/10/2021
Author: Katrina Dring