kangi (Comb)
About this object
History of use
Used to groom and hold hair.
Narrative
Received by Joy Inglis in Bihar.
Physical description
Comb made of one piece of light yellow wood. Wedge-shaped in cross-section with the curved handle being the widest at the centre and tapering off slightly to the sides where there is a semi-circular notch in each side just below the corners. Decorated with a pattern of five parallel lines above tines and at curved handle edge.
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