Comb
This is a beautifully decorated comb from South America. Even its fine teeth have a pattern of contrasting colours. The middle section is decorated with embroidery with thread wrapped around the teeth in a complicated pattern which holds the comb together.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 105/2003/5
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Personal ornament
- Collection Area Region
- S
- Material
- wood (carved)cottonfibre (tucum)
- Common Name
- comb
- Simple Name
- comb
- Production County
- Xingu National Park
- Production Country
- Brazil
