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The Inuit of Arctic America used their limited resources of raw materials to the full for food, clothing, equipment and toys. They relied primarily on seals and caribou, supplementing these with whales, walrus, bear, birds and driftwood and grasses.…
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Wooden comb with incised decoration (geometric patterns).
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Wooden comb with incised decoration (barred lines).
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Small, dark, tortoise-shell comb.
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Decorative hair comb, made of mottled tortoise-shell.
Comb. Flat comb with a wide arch shape made of tortoiseshell. Three stars are cut into the handle.
A large beard comb made of horn and dating from the second half of the 19th century. D-shaped with long teeth and a high back, which is decorated with three incised eight-pointed stars. Made by the Aberdeen Comb Works, Hutcheon Street.
Comb. made from tortoiseshell with large teeth spaced wide apart. The handle consists of a curved rectangular panel and is ornately decorated with inlaid copper. A fine honeycomb pattern runs along the edges, with interlacing diamonds, and crosses and stars in the middle. Small circles of inlaid mother of pearl run along the diamonds and between the arms of the crosses.
Comb made of tortoise-shell, with inlaid decoration of small circles & large diamonds on the crown.
Comb. Made of multiple pieces of bone riveted together with silver rivets. The comb is decorated with parallel lines along the edges, a shell shaped piece on top, and a loop with simple scroll shapes on each side. The teeth are extremely fine and close together.
A bug comb made from ivory, double-sided with two sets of long, very fine and close-set teeth. The teeth are sandwiched between two ornate ivory holders and riveted with silver. The comb would have been used to comb out head lice and destroy…
Comb. Remains of a comb made of bone. The handle remains and is composed of two pieces of bone attached with copper rivets to make a cylindrical shape. There were many fine teeth.
Bone comb, long, single-sided, with many fine, close-set teeth, now broken. The back is made from two separate pieces of bone, rivetted on with copper rivets. Dated to 13th or 14th century.