Accession No
1941.9 C
Description
Comb - [From catalogue card:] 'Wooden combs, with yellow, black and red binding round shafts.[Added later] [one of ]6 combs mounted on frame covered with plaited grass.[Added later on reverse] 'One prong on top. Two panels of coloured binding on each side'.
Place
Oceania; Melanesia; Solomon Islands
Period
Source
Coote, Walter [collector]; Barkley (Mrs) [donor]; Hornsby (Mrs) [donor]
Department
Anth
Reference Numbers
1941.9 C
Cultural Affliation
Material
Wood
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (CMS Context)
(Bio) Collected by Walter Coote in1880. (Bio): Female donors - Mrs. Barkley and Mrs. Hornsby. See W.Coote: “The Western Pacific”, 1883 (London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington) ‘1941.9 A-F, apperas to have been previously numbered on the catalogue card as 1941.8, with no suffixes- it is unclear when this was changed, R.Hand 7/4/2009’
Event Date 21/1/2008
Author: maa
Description (CMS Description)
[From catalogue card:] 'Wooden combs, with yellow, black and red binding round shafts.[Added later] [one of ]6 combs mounted on frame covered with plaited grass.[Added later on reverse] 'One prong on top. Two panels of coloured binding on each side'.
Event Date 21/1/2008
Author: maa
FM:265011
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