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Tortise shell (or horn) hair comb, medium-large rounded-back form, its top a plain two inch panel with straight top, above a series of long narrow teeth (some missing).
combs (hair ornaments)
hair accessories
carving (processes)
lip-vibrated aerophones with conical bore: with valves
horn (animal material)
molding (forming)
tortoise shell
lip-vibrated aerophones with conical bore: with valves
horn (animal material)
Shell
Horn
Molded
Carved
COMB
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
5.125 x 5.75 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1637
Possibly Massachusetts (United States)
Possibly
Title Comb Box Lid Accession Number 1991.1636A
Title Comb Box Accession Number 1991.1636B
Title Hair Comb Accession Number 1991.1638
Title Hair Comb Accession Number 1991.1639
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