Stylus
- Museum number:
- 9-21318
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090021318
- Alternate number:
- II 8 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.4697
- Description:
- Red stylus to part the hair. Lacquered wood (?). Length: 17 cm.; handle: 4 mm. diameter.
- Donor:
- Ilse Martin Fang
- Collection place:
- Beijing, Beijing municipality, Northern China
- Verbatim coll. place:
- China; purchased in Peking 1943
- Culture or time period:
- Chinese
- Collector:
- Ilse Martin Fang
- Collection date:
- 1943
- Materials:
- Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 1.8 Toilet Articles
- Production date:
- ca. 1930s
- Accession date:
- December 15, 1998
- Context of use:
- For parting hair. approx. 1930’s
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Dimensions:
- Handle, diameter— diameter 4 millimeters and Length— length 17 centimeters
- Images:
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