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Hair comb
The silver crescent-shaped holder with floral motifs (ku'ba salaka) holds a tortoiseshell, horn or wooden comb. This is worn by women on top of the hair curl (konde) with on either side a red woollen tassel on a bamboo stick and 2 copper - moving or not - pins with a red glass "flower" (bunga lawesiang).
Type of item
- Object Type: comb
- comb (accessory)
- Comb
Date
- 1975/1985
Medium
- Material: animal origin materials
- Material: metal
- metal
- Metal
- Animal product
Type of item
- Object Type: comb
- comb (accessory)
- Comb
Date
- 1975/1985
Medium
- Material: animal origin materials
- Material: metal
- metal
- Metal
- Animal product
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 1975
- 1975/1985
Provenance
- 2015-04-15
- Aankoop
Identifier
- 7038-15a1
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/1030222
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- red
- ambergris
- bamboo
Year
- 1975
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-11T07:13:13.286Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-10-15T07:33:21.569Z