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IPSMG:R.1945.157.14.i

Ipswich Collections

Comb made of palm leaf and vegetable fibre. Leaf ribs bound together at the top with light and dark woven fibre. 20 teeth are plaited together with vegetable fibre halfway down, in a geometrical black and natural pattern with bird-like lashing patterns above it. Mrs Alice Moore collection.

Polynesia, Tonga

19th Century, late, 20th Century, early

palm leaf, vegetable fibre

length: 185.00 cm