Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card: 'Ukale / Wooden comb, rough line engraving on both sides of shoulders'
Second hand: 'There are two combs bearing this number; the one above and another of black wood with 5 prongs, one side of the top is covered with incised lines. The top is shaped [sketch of object on the catalogue card]'

Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
Luggage tag label found with comb: '1745 | Comb / Okpe'
Added in blue pencil: '?No. all given are wrong'
Added in pencil: '? is this 1746'
Added in pen: 'Correctly 1646 (RMB)'

[RMB may be Roger Blench who worked with the Thomas Collection in the 90s. Katrina Dring, 29/10/2021']
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in white ink: 'T10.401'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Related Documents)
Bevan label found with comb: 'T.C.174 / COMB'
Added in blue pencil: '?No.'
Added in pen: '1646 (RMB)'
Event Date
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 (12-20)
and bone (21-23)
Before 1914
From Okpe, South Nigeria
Okpe, Edo Culture
Made by Okpe Artists
Collected by N.W. Thomas. On loan from Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Z 12900; Z 12991; Z 13055; Z 12978; Z 12967; Z 13041;
Z 12967; Z 13037; Z 12972; Z 12979; Z 12885; Z 13105'.
Event Date 22/7/2013
Author: Remke van der Velden

Description (Physical description)
Ukale or small wooden comb. Five tapering prongs with a rectangular shoulder and upturned crescent handle; carved with lines on both sides.
Event Date 29/10/2021
Author: Katrina Dring