Comb
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "CARVED FROM WOOD. SURMOUNTED BY A MASK. 9 TEETH."
label: Notes
content: Illus. p. 240, and described on p. 240 and p. 382 in Gilman, Carolyn. 2003. Lewis and Clark across the divide. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books. It is noted there: "Combs like this one are sometimes identified as weaving combs, but the Chinook did little weaving and may have used them for grooming and decoration instead. ... Similar combs from farther north were collected on Captain James Cook's expedition in 1778."
label: Notes
content: Peale # 252. Peale catalogue describes #s 251-253 as "Wooden combs made by the natives of Oregon."
label: Notes
content: Carved from a single piece of wood. Rectangular in shape with long, slightly irregular carved teeth. On top of comb is a carved human head with beard and pronounced eyebrows. The face, except around the eyebrows, and top part of comb is colored with red. Eyebrows are colored black.
label: Notes
content: Per Bill Holm - Columbia River up to mid Vancouver Island; more likely Juan de Fuca Strait.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Oregon Territory / Washington Territory (not certain), United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chinook (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2701-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Comb
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 19 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 5.3 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 1.8 cm