Bidspirit auction | TWO OCEANIC COMBS

TWO OCEANIC COMBS - Ca. 19th - 20th century AD. A pair of traditional Oceanic combs, one from the Solomon Islands with long, tapering wooden teeth bound at the base, decorated with a black ground and white geometric motifs; the other from Yap Island, Micronesia, with a distinctive broad geometric form of carved wooden teeth. For similar see: Pitt Rivers Museum, 2nd floor, combs case.Size: 240-380mm x 88-130mm; Weight: 60gProvenance: Prince collection, 1990s-2014; (left) Ex. Webbs, March 2012, Sale 979, Lot 61, (right) Ex. Udo Hortsman.