Comb (Hair - grooming tool)
AF5111
From: Nigeria | Benin Kingdom
Curatorial Section: African
Object Number | AF5111 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Nigeria | Benin Kingdom |
Date Made | 19th century CE |
Section | African |
Materials | Wood |
Iconography | Man | Musket | Powder Horn | Rider | Horse | Equestrian |
Description | Man on horseback. Wooden comb with eight long teeth, equestrian male figure wearing hat rider in modern European clothing carrying a musket, gunpowder flask hangd from shoulder, horse has braided harness, wide band with guilloche pattern separate carved top and teeth of comb. |
Height | 34.5 cm |
Width | 7.2 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from W. O. Oldman, 1920 |
Other Number | 048 - Cast Number |
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