Comb (Hair - grooming tool)
| Object Number: | 37-22-171 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Sherbro |
| Provenience: | Sierra Leone Sherbro Island |
| Section: | African |
| Materials: | Wood |
| Length: | 31 cm |
| Width: | 6.7 cm |
| Credit Line: | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number: | 21 - Collector Number |
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.
Bibliography:
| [Catalogue, Exhibition] Curnow, Kathy. 2014. At Home In Africa: Design, Beauty and Pleasing Irregularity in Domestic Settings.. Cleveland. The Galleries at Cleveland State University. pg. 286 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Page 60/Fig. 4-18 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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