Wooden Comb

Unidentified Fijian maker

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1968

Wood

Overall: 10 1/4 × 3 × 1/4 in. (26 × 7.6 × 0.6 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase

168.80.24416

Geography

Place Made: Fiji, Melanesia, Oceania

Period

20th century

Object Name

Personal Gear

Research Area

Oceania

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by E. Fred Schroeder, Jr., Rockey River, Ohio (Dartmouth Class of 1967), in Fiji, Summer 1968; sold to present collection, 1968.

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