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Description: | This hair comb is made from ivory and gold lacquer (layer upon layer of hard varnish made from tree resin). The main decoration shows a couple inside their houseboat. The back of the comb has a picture of two fishermen sitting in their boats on a lake, waiting for their fishing nets to dry. Combs were used by Japanese women in the 19th century to hold their complex hairstyles, and were often very decorative. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | beyond the North East art other cultures date | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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