prmlogo2Cook-Voyage Collections
at the Pitt Rivers Museum

1886.1.1558

PRM0001310695179Comb, of wood, from New Caledonia; part of the Forster collection (part of Forster 150; 1886.1.1558).

Wooden comb, originally with 15 teeth. Three teeth are broken; only a small fragment of one remains within the binding. Each tooth has a knob at one end to stop it slipping through the plant fibre and hair binding holding the set together

 

  PRM0001302915179Comb (with scale)
PRM0001302925179Detail of binding
PRM0001299815179Ashmolean label
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