Ashanti Comb

Comb Ashanti kingdom, modern Ghana, West Africa.

Wood; H.20 cm

Bayern Museum, Germany.

From the Egypt of the Pharaohs, such combs, are found everywhere in black Africa: Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Angola, Chad, Niger, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Guinea… Material culture, objects of care, the texture of the hair, nature of the hair (racial index for anthropology descriptive physics): deep cultural unity of the black world, since Antiquity.