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Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Weaving Comb
Gift of Professor George W. Nace
1990/1.181

Songye (Songye)
Comb with Head
1900 – 1983
Museum purchase made possible by the Betty J. Lockett Memorial Fund
1983/1.155

Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Comb (pair with 2003/1.374)
1867 – 1899
Gift of Keiko Takeshita, in memory of her father
2003/1.373
A flat wooden stick coming to a point at each end. It has oval and tear-drop shaped abstract carvings on the surface with diagonal lines at the end.
Ainu
Ikupasuy (Prayer Stick)
1867 – 1932
Gift of Mrs. Caroline J. Plumer
1991/1.79
A flat wooden stick coming to a point at each end. It has groups of three vertical lines at each end  and the middle of the stick.
Ainu
Ikupasuy (Prayer Stick)
1867 – 1932
Gift of Mrs. Caroline J. Plumer
1991/1.80
A flat wooden stick coming to a point at each end. At each end as well as the middle of the stick, there are patches of thinly curled strips of wood.
Ainu
Ikupasuy (Prayer Stick)
1867 – 1932
Gift of Mrs. Caroline J. Plumer
1991/1.82
A flat wooden stick coming to a point at each end. It has an abstract design on the surface as a well two 3D animals.
Ainu
Ikupasuy (Prayer Stick)
Gift of Mrs. Caroline J. Plumer
1991/1.81
The handle as a head with flange perimeter, and with geometric carving.
Baulé (Baule (culture))
Comb
Gift and partial purchase from the estate of Kurt Delbanco in honor of Nicholas Delbanco
2017/1.615
This wooden comb, or <em>cisakulo,</em> is composed of six long teeth and an anthropomorphic support. Its handle includes a rectangular section with multiple bands of diagonal, incised lines. This section along with the teeth of the comb visually form an abstracted body for the delicately carved head, which sits atop the handle. These lined motifs as well as the fine facial features are similar to those found in the figural carvings of the neighboring Chokwe; the striated turbanesque coiffure, however, is distinctly characteristic of the Lwena style.
Lwena (Lwena)
Comb
1875 – 1885
Gift of Candis and Helmut Stern
2005/1.203
This wooden comb includes 11 large teeth, one of which has broken off. Its handle includes a rectangular section with multiple bands of diagonal, incised lines. This rectangular section along with the teeth of the comb visually form an abstracted body for the delicately carved head, which sits atop the handle. The head itself bears fine facial features as evidenced by its straight mouth and narrow eyes with large, round orbits.  
Lunda (Lunda (culture or style))
Comb
1895 – 1955
Museum Purchase assisted by the Friends of the Museum of Art
1971/2.46
A flat wooden stick coming to a point at each end. It has groups of three vertical lines at each end &nbsp;and the middle of the stick.
Ainu
Ikupasuy (Prayer Stick)
1867 – 1932
Gift of Mrs. Caroline J. Plumer
1991/1.83

Baulé (Baule (culture))
Comb
20th century
Gift of Dr. James and Vivian Curtis
1997/1.328
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