Accession No
1920.554
Description
Comb - [From catalogue card:] 'Flat comb. Three white tassel of fibre are attached to end by strings of beads' [added later] 'in red white & blue. Fibre attached in four groups each secured with a brown shell at the bend in the fibre. Comb has 11 teeth.'
Place
Oceania; Melanesia; Solomon Islands
Period
Source
O'Ferrall, William Chamberlain (Rev.) [collector and donor]
Department
Anth
Reference Numbers
1920.554
Cultural Affliation
Material
Wood; Plant Fibre
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (CMS Context)
(Bio) Rev.W.C.O. O’Farrall, Melanesian Mission. Donor’s surname has been transcribed variously on box-lists and catalogue cards both as O'Ferrall and O’Ferrell, R.Hand 6/4/2009’ ‘sketch added on the catalogue card’
Event Date 30/10/2007
Author: maa
Description (CMS Description)
On catalogue card: 'Flat comb. Three white tassel of fibre are attached to end by strings of beads' [added later] 'in red white & blue. Fibre attached in four groups each secured with a brown shell at the bend in the fibre. Comb has 11 teeth.'
Event Date 30/10/2007
Author: maa
Description (CMS Description)
One side of the comb is decorated with carved vertical zigzags. The other side has been covered with black resin. The fibre tassels are hanging from four glass bead strings and a nut shell. Some small beads have been threaded into some of the fibre at the end of the tassels.
Event Date 21/5/2015
Author: maa
FM:264761
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