hair comb for woman

Culture
Asante people
Creation date
Collection
African
Materials
wood
Dimensions
10 3/8 x 4 1/2 x 1 3/8 in.
Currently On View
Credit line
From the collection of Richard and Carole Darst
Accession number
2008.752
Provenance
Katherine Coryton White (1929-1980) (1). Ralph Spiegl. (Jacqueline Spiegl, San Francisco dealer); to Richard and Carole Darst, Indianapolis collectors in September 1984.

(1) The comb is illustrated in Robert Farris Thompson, African Art in Motion: Icon and Act in the Collection of Katherine Coryton White, Los Angeles, 1974, plate 73, and Theodore Celenko, ed., Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas: Private Indianapolis Collections, Indianapolis, 1986, ill. 9, and Warren M. Robbins and Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections, Survey 1989, Washington, 1989, p.547, ill. 1082.
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