Comb (Hair - grooming tool)
37-22-171
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-171 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Wood |
| Description | The handle proper has the form of a baluster standing, inverted on a transverse oval carved with a palmette in a ring flanked by two groups of radiating lines. Below this is a rectangle bearing two rows of deeply concave scale-like elements. From the rectangle issue the usual six prongs. See 37-22-164. |
| Length | 31 cm |
| Width | 6.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 21 - Collector Number |
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