Comb (Hair - grooming tool)
37-22-167
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-167 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Wood |
| Description | The handle tapers [round in section] to the half-oval, which bears a cross-hatched device of a leaf [or spear-head]. The top of the handle is a traingular loop between two pear-shaped lobes. Six prongs. See 37-22-164. |
| Length | 25.2 cm |
| Width | 7 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 40 - Collector Number |
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