Comb made from 13 individual lengths of flexible wood bound together by white string, and ending in prongs stabilized by two pieces of wood acting as cross bars wrapped in string. The string binding alternates up the handle between being bound to one outer-side, crossing through the individual pieces, and then winding around the opposite side. Along the cross-bars the string is wrapped diagonally around each running in opposite directions.

• Narrative

  From the collection of Sister Twyford or Miss J. Pearce (Australia), who had served as missionaries in the Trobriand Islands in the 1920s and Dobu Island in the 1930s.

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• Type of Item comb
• Culture Trobriand
• Material wood, cotton fibre
• Measurements height 0.9 cm, width 8.0 cm, depth 19.5 cm (overall)

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• Previous Owner Ingeborg Marshall
• Received from Ingeborg Marshall

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• Made in Kiriwina Islands

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• Creation Date before 1940
• Collection Date between 1920 and 1940
• Ownership Date before November 18, 2014
• Acquisition Date on November 18, 2014

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• Condition good
• Accession Number 3092/0026