Hair comb

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Title

Hair comb

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Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This is a woman's comb made of tortoiseshell. The maker and place of manufacture are unknown. It is merely a fragment of a comb, the remainder said to have been left embedded in a woman's head after she was hit by a tomahawk in 1834. The woman was Betty Guard, the wife John Guard, who set up the first shore-based whaling station in the South Island's Marlborough Sounds in the 1820s. Violent eventsThe Guard family was returning from a Sydney visit when their ship, the Harriet, was wrecked off...

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Image

Date created

circa 1830

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/65860

Related subjects

tortoiseshell / combs / Guard family

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