Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card: Girls use for keeping camwood paint, etc
[different hand] This is a basket box (uki nkpuoi) without a lid and is full of camwood paint and odds and ends, including a wooden comb.
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: Katrina Dring

Context (Display)
Comb 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: 'Wood hair comb
Before 1914
From Obu, Southeast Nigeria
Igbo culture
Made by an Igbo artist
Collected by N.W. Thomas
On loan from Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Z 13949'.
Event Date 17/7/2013
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Found together / assemblage)
The basket (Z 13949.1) was found with the pieces of camwood (Z 13949.3) inside and probably originally also contained the comb (Z 13949.2).
Event Date 18/7/2018
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Wooden comb for hair
Event Date 18/7/2018
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
A comb carved from wood with four cylindrical and tapering prongs. The handle is rectangular with a rounded end. Decorated on one side with linear carvings. There are traces of camwood paint on the reverse.
Event Date 22/10/2021
Author: Annie Tomkins