Hair adornments

Description
Comb: Ornamental: black wooden comb with shell inlays, triangular in shape. The prongs are lashed on, and an unidentifiable brown coloured coating applied over the whole surface of the comb. Inlaid with triangular notched pieces of shell, mostly in pairs down each side of the front only. Top of comb rough, possibly missing a piece off the top. From the Pacific.
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Description
Comb: Ornamental: black wooden comb with shell inlays, triangular in shape. The prongs are lashed on, and an unidentifiable brown coloured coating applied over the whole surface of the comb. Inlaid with triangular notched pieces of shell, mostly in pairs down each side of the front only. Top of comb rough, possibly missing a piece off the top. From the Pacific.
Department
Social History - Puna Pāpori
ID number
10213

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