Pitt Rivers Museum Anthropology and World Archaology

 

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Hairpin

China

 

Collected by R. T. Turley

Purchased by the Museum in 1896

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Hairpins sometimes have a secondary function, including cleaning small wounds or fingernails. This thin, gold-coloured hairpin is also an ear cleaner. It is a lady’s hairpin, collected in Beijing some time before 1896.

View database record 1896.62.140