Notes

FROM CARD: "CARVED FROM WOOD. SURMOUNTED BY A MASK. 9 TEETH."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."Peale # 252. Peale catalogue describes #s 251-253 as "Wooden combs made by the natives of Oregon."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.Per Bill Holm - Columbia River up to mid Vancouver Island; more likely Juan de Fuca Strait.