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Object Number
37-32-50/2523
Display Title
Ebony hair parter
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Tool, stick, carved, incised, tapered point, dark wood
Classification
- Tools
- Raw Material
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Forest Tribe
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Cameroon
Additional Geographic Terms
Cameroon, southern: Ebolowa, region around
Materials
Wood
Dimensions
Overall: 21.5 x 1.1 x 0.5 cm (8 7/16 x 7/16 x 3/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
37-32-50/2523
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PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
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| 37-32-50/2524 | Ebony hair parter |
Tools
Raw Material |
Cameroon
| |
| 37-32-50/2418 | Combined ebony comb and hair parter |
Comb
Raw Material |
Cameroon
| |
| 37-32-50/2420 | Red wood comb with hair parter - noticeably stained with oil used in woman's hai |
Raw Material
Comb |
Cameroon
| |
| 37-32-50/2421 | Red wood comb with hair parter |
Comb
Raw Material |
Cameroon
| |
| 37-32-50/2417 | Ebony comb, carved - used only for dressing the hair |
Comb
Raw Material |
Cameroon
Gabon | |
| 37-32-50/2416 | Ebony comb, carved - used only for dressing the hair |
Comb
Raw Material |
Cameroon
| |
| 40-24-50/4930 | Youth's ebony dance stick - spiral carving decoration |
Staff
|
Africa
| |
| 22-2-50/B2928.1 | Ebony "idol" |
Figurine
|
Cameroon
| |
| 40-24-50/4931 | Youth's ebony dance stick - flared at one end, curved at other |
Staff
|
Africa
| |
| 40-24-50/4936 | Ebony club - end is knobbed and pitted |
Club
|
Sudan
| |
| 16-43-50/B1080 | Club, ebony |
Club
|
Sudan
| |
| 37-32-50/2414 | Large ebony pipe - good example of native carving and use of metal |
Pipe
Raw Material |
Cameroon
|