Title
Ivory comb
Dateca. 1850
Mediumivory
Dimensions3 1/4 × 6 in. (8.3 × 15.2 cm)
Object number1969.18.3
Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
DescriptionIvory comb in a box (not original to comb). Fine teeth on each side of the comb and openwork carving in the center panel, with bird and cherub motif. A note on outside of box: "Comb found in Aunt Minnie's possession. Probably made by sailor in Nantucket of whale's teeth." This is not in fact true. Instead, this comb is quite similar in design and manufacture to examples in the British Museum collection produced of mammoth ivory by the Evenki people along the Amur, River in Blagoveshchensk, Siberia, Russia (Asia). See also: ZINAIDA I. IVANOVA-UNAROVA AND LIUBOV R. ALEKSEEVA, "Ivory Carving in Yakutia: National Identity and Processes of Acculturation," Sibirica, Vol. 20, No. 2, Summer 2021: 76–101
On View
Not on view
Circa 1890
17th Century-18th Century
19th Century
Circa 1940
Circa 1940
Date Unknown
