Comb (Hair - grooming tool)
AF5111
From: Nigeria | Benin Kingdom
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | AF5111 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Nigeria | Benin Kingdom |
| Date Made | 19th century CE |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Wood |
| Iconography | Man | Musket | Powder Horn | Rider | Horse | Equestrian |
| Description | Man on horseback. Wooden comb with eight long teeth, equestrian male figure wearing hat rider in modern European clothing carrying a musket, gunpowder flask hangd from shoulder, horse has braided harness, wide band with guilloche pattern separate carved top and teeth of comb. |
| Height | 34.5 cm |
| Width | 7.2 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from W. O. Oldman, 1920 |
| Other Number | 048 - Cast Number |
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