Description (Physical description)
Accession register description for Z 12333[.1-2] reads: 'Two combs'
Event Date
Author: Annie Tomkins

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card description for Z 12333[.1-2] reads: 'Two combs. [Added in different handwriting] One has 4 sharp pointed prongs, no handle and cane wrapped around the top of the 4 prongs [Added in pencil] only 1'
Event Date
Author: maa

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 (1, 3-6 & 8),
wood and cotton thread (2 & 7),
copper alloy and brass (9 & 10)
and midribs of palm leaf,
palm leaf fibre
and dye (11).
Before 1914
From Uzebba, South Nigeria
Yekhee, Edo Culture
Made by Yekhee Artists
Collected by N.W. Thomas
On loan from Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Z 25454/Z 12578; Z 12331; Z 12367; Z 12475; Z 12710;
Z 12711; Z 25392; Z 12403; Z 12430; Z 12362; Z 12333'.
Event Date 22/7/2013
Author: Remke van der Velden

Description (Physical description)
A small comb made from cane. Consisting of four lengths that been bound together with plant fibre and sharpened at the tip to form prongs.
Event Date 21/10/2021
Author: Annie Tomkins