Bone hairpin or scratcher

Item

Title

Bone hairpin or scratcher

Creator

Creator Unrecorded

Subject

Hair
Headgear

Description

Hairpin or scratcher made of animal bone [possibly cattle]. Oval, flat face on one end, which sharpens into a point at the other. Cross hatched design. [FHM27/07/2019]

Publisher

Making African Connections

Date

c.1930

Type

PhysicalObject

Format

Animal; Bone
Carpentered

Identifier

ETH.ANG3.690 .1
A37/690A

Source

Antoinette and Diana Powell-Cotton
1937
The Powell-Cotton Museum

Space/Place

Angola
Africa

Rights

© The Powell-Cotton Trust

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Catalogue card for ETH.ANG 3.690.1 Physical Object