Three different combs

Three different combs
wood
carved and pierced decoration "Geometric motifs"
Angolans - Tshokwe (related peoples)
20th C. (mid)
minor defects, patina wear
two purchased in Munhango, in 1966, the other in Luau (former Teixeira de Sousa), in 1967
Dimensões (altura x comprimento x largura) - (o maior) 21 cm
Notes: Provenance: Collection of Engineer Elísio Romariz dos Santos Silva, items with the numbers 76, 85 and 108 mentioned in the notebook of the collector «Angola - Arte Negra, Relação e descrição das peças», each identified as «Comb». No. 76, referred to in the collector's notebook, is described as containing a "Crosspiece pierced by a circular sector. The upper part is adorned with vertical incisions; the lower part with vertical and oblique incisions forming triangles. Purchased in Munhango, in 1966 [...]." No. 85 is described, containing a "Crosspiece decorated with incisions surmounted by an arch with two small stems [...]. Purchased in Munhango in 1966 [...]." Item nº 108 is referred to, containing a "Crosspiece decorated with incisions forming four panels with four triangles each; the panels are divided two by two by vertical incisions in the center of the crosspiece. This is topped by an arch with two small and diverging rods . [...] Purchased in Luau [former Teixeira de Sousa] in 1967, [...]." Other combs are represented in DIAS, Jorge (direc.) - "Escultura Africana no Museu de Etnologia do Ultramar". Lisboa: Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, 1968, s/p, nº 157; in JORDÁN, Manuel. “Chokwe!- Art and Initiation Among Chokwe and Related Peoples”. Munich/London/New York: Prestel-Verlag, 1998, p. 63, nº 52; and in the auction catalogue held on February 1, 2023 at Lempertz "Art of Arfrica, the Pacific and the Americas". Brussels: Lempertz, 2023, lote 46.