1631 Old Tanimbar / Oceanic Bone or Fossil Comb

Antique Tanimbar / Oceanic Comb

Made of fossil? or bone?

Note the birds and the two human figures in cells.

(reminds me of the ancestors in Toraja)

 11cm width at the broadest point x 21cm height

Museum Examples:

The British Museum

A Japanese Soldier's Ethnography of Molu Island (1944-45)

* Last two pictures from the internet