Comb

Museum number:
5-6343
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
B-1814 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.2308
Description:
Comb; wood. Hour-glass shaped handle decorated above teeth with raised, incised bands and squares; fire-blackened; cross bands decorated with V-shaped circular and semi-circular incisions; 8 teeth.
Donor:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Accra, Ghana
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa, Ghana, Accra, unspecified; Purchased at Accra market
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1944
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Combs (grooming tools)
Function:
1.8 Toilet Articles
Accession date:
1967
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
length 22.5 centimeters and width 8 centimeters
Comment:
Exhibited: Oakland Public Museum, 1965; San Jose Civic Art Gallery, 1973. Collected 1944; PAHMA Storage Loc: V-28-2
Loans:
S1973-1974 #21: City of San Jose (October 11, 1973–December 4, 1973)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Comb, accession number 5-6343, described as Comb; wood. Hour-glass shaped handle decorated above teeth with raised, incised bands and squares; fire-blackened; cross bands decorated with V-shaped circular and semi-circular incisions; 8 teeth.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Comb, accession number 5-6343, described as Comb; wood. Hour-glass shaped handle decorated above teeth with raised, incised bands and squares; fire-blackened; cross bands decorated with V-shaped circular and semi-circular incisions; 8 teeth.

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