Decorative wooden comb with carved anthropomorphic head

Made:: 1901-1930 in Kinshasa

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Decorative wooden comb with carved anthropomorphic head
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Decorative wooden comb with carved anthropomorphic head, Ba Yaka tribe, Belgian Congo, Africa, early 20th century

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A651076

Materials:: wood

type:: comb - grooming tool

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Decorative wooden comb with carved anthropomorphic head

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