Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card description for Z 13387: 'Kele. bone combs, undecorated on reverse.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
'T.10.407' written on the object.
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Thomas Collection 1st Catalogue description for 2051 A-B reads: 'Bone combs, small, one side carved'
Event Date
Author: Annie Tomkins

Description (Physical description)
Accession register for Z 13387 reads: 'Two small bone combs, one side carved.'
Event Date
Author: Annie Tomkins

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 (24 & 25),
copper alloy and brass (26 & 27, 31 & 32)
and bone and pigment (28-30)
Before 1914
From Otuo, South Nigeria
Ghotuo, Edo Culture, Made by Ghotuo Artists
Collected by N.W. Thomas. On loan from Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Z 13334; Z 13387 B; Z 13396; Z 13396; Z 13387;
Z 13397; Z 13387 A; Z 13396; Z 13396'.
Event Date 22/7/2013
Author: Remke van der Velden

Description (Physical description)
Kele. Small comb of bone, decorated on once side.
Event Date 27/10/2021
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Kele. A small comb carved from bone with seven prongs. The rectangular handle is decorated on one side with an incised geometric patterns surrounded by small black dots. The reverse of the comb is undecorated.
Event Date 28/10/2021
Author: Annie Tomkins