Historic New England

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring roundels and flowers at top, palms at the center and a chain of leaves and flowers at the bottom, twenty-four teeth.

Date: 1810-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103003

Accession Number: 1946.20

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring a scrolling foliate design, sixteen teeth.

Date: 1810-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103004

Accession Number: 1936.564

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a large flared top featuring molded arched rays and fourteen teeth.

Date: 1800-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103005

Accession Number: 1912.79

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring an urn at center and scrolled abstract foliage, seventeen teeth.

Date: 1780-1830

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103006

Accession Number: 1968.136

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring scrolling foliage, twelve teeth (three missing).

Date: 1810-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103007

Accession Number: 1944.843

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a pierced and carved top featuring an urn at the center and scrolling foliage and abstract flowers, thirteen teeth.

Date: 1800-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: horn (animal material)

GUSN: 103008

Accession Number: 1936.882

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a top in three sections each featuring a carved and pierced floral design, ten teeth.

Date: 1780-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103009

Accession Number: 1934.202

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring an urn and flower at center and radiating abstract foliage, ten teeth (center eight are a replacement).

Date: 1780-1830

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103010

Accession Number: 1955.115

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a rectangular curved top featuring a bright cut and incised line border, ten teeth.

Date: 1780-1830

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103011

Accession Number: 1935.1528

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a large flared square top, seven teeth remain.

Date: 1825-1836

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103012

Accession Number: 1951.140

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a large carved and pierced top featuring abstract floral and foliate designs, twelve teeth.

Date: 1810-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103013

Accession Number: 1935.1529

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell hair comb with a pierced and carved top featuring an abstract floral design, twenty teeth (two missing).

Date: 1810-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103014

Accession Number: 1935.1530

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring a repeating lyre design over a frieze of fruit, twenty-six teeth (one missing).

Date: 1780-1830

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103015

Accession Number: 2008.4.5

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with carved and pierced top featuring a center flower with radiating abstract foliate scrolls, fourteen teeth.

Date: 1810-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103016

Accession Number: 1934.1277

Hair comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a pierced and carved top featuring a zigzag border with flames and a frieze of scrolling flowers, twenty-four teeth (five missing)

Date: 1800-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103017

Accession Number: 1934.1278

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with carved and pierced floral top and fifteen teeth.

Date: 1810-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: tortoise shell, carving (processes)

GUSN: 103018

Accession Number: 1933.399

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with carved and pierced floral and trellis design top and fourteen teeth.

Date: 1800-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103019

Accession Number: 1936.817

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved top featuring a zigzag and bead border and a frieze with a foliate swag, seventeen teeth (two missing).

Date: 1810-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103020

Accession Number: 1933.1038

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring a floral and roundel design, twenty-four teeth (one missing)

Date: 1810-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103021

Accession Number: 1932.112

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a flared carved and pierced top featuring a floral and scrolled foliage design, seventeen teeth (four missing).

Date: 1810-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103022

Accession Number: 1933.690

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved top featuring a central urn with scrolling flowers and foliage, seventeen teeth.

Date: 1820-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103023

Accession Number: 1951.70

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved and pierced top in a chrysanthemum pattern, twenty-one teeth (one detached).

Date: 1825-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103024

Accession Number: 1934.1946

Scrimshaw

Tooth with scrimshaw decoration depicting a horse and a floral basket.

Maker: unknown

Material: dentin

GUSN: 171409

Accession Number: 2006.44.1455

Basket

Small woven wire basket with a handle.

Maker: unknown

Material: metal

GUSN: 171410

Accession Number: 2006.44.2114

Ivory pendant from a Hawaiian "lei niho palaoa" necklace. Pendant usually suspended from multiple thin braids of human hair. Worn only by men and woment of the elite class - or ali'i - lei niho palaoa were potent symbols of status and sacred power.

Date: 19th century

Maker: unknown

Material: ivory (tooth component)

GUSN: 171411

Accession Number: 2006.44.1454

Basket

Small Native American basket with a withe pearl stripe on the top.

Maker: unknown

Material: grass (plant material)

GUSN: 171412

Accession Number: 2006.44.2112

Comb

Decorated hair comb, or faa, from the Solomon Islands. The body and teeth are made from split sections of the tree fern, and the top and mid-section are intricately decorated with plaited black, natural and red plant fibers. A red resin covers portions of the comb. Faa are worn only by men.

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), plant fiber, resin (organic material)

GUSN: 171413

Accession Number: 2006.44.1456

Textile

Round black embroidered textile.

Maker: unknown

Material: fiber

GUSN: 171418

Accession Number: 2006.44.1457

Figurine

Stone figure of a woman on wood stand.

Maker: unknown

Material: stone (rock)

GUSN: 171419

Accession Number: 2006.44.1458

Figurine

Plaster statue of classical female.

Maker: unknown

Material: plaster

GUSN: 171420

Accession Number: 2006.44.1459

Reeds

Bundle of lontar (palmyra) palm, pierced near one end and tied together with a cord that is then wrapped around them, making a book. Each piece is covered with an incised fine handwriting, unidentified (most closely resembles Arabic or Indonesian?).

Maker: unknown

Material: reed (grass, material)

GUSN: 171421

Accession Number: 2006.44.1460

Box

Wood box with a carved lid of a house landscape.

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 171422

Accession Number: 2006.44.1461AB

Box

Red carved box with a heron on the lid.

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 171423

Accession Number: 2006.44.2113AB

Figurine

Stone figurine of a cherub.

Maker: unknown

Material: stone (rock)

GUSN: 171424

Accession Number: 2006.44.1462

Box

Gold paper box.

Maker: unknown

Material: cardboard

GUSN: 171425

Accession Number: 2006.44.2115

Autobridge playing board

Autobridge playing board in a box with rules.

Maker: unknown

Material: cardboard

GUSN: 171430

Accession Number: 2006.44.2093

Marble ramp

Wooden painted marble ramp toy with four levels and a round base to catch the marbles. Eight marbles are placed in sunken spots in the base.

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 171431

Accession Number: 2006.44.2226AB

Framed photographic print

Oval framed photograph portrait of a lady and her baby.

Maker: unknown

Material: metal, photographic paper

GUSN: 171432

Accession Number: 2006.44.2111

Halima board game

Wooden "Halma" box with sliding lid. Holds game pieces, board and a "Rules and Problems" brochure. There are thirteen red pieces, nineteen yellow pieces, thirteen green pieces, eighteen black pieces, and five odd miscellaneous objects. Cardboard game board.

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 171434

Accession Number: 2006.44.2225A-D

Tall-case clock

Federal mahogany tall-case clock. Flower pattern on the screen. Brass finials.

Date: 1810-1815

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood), brass (alloy)

GUSN: 171436

Accession Number: 2006.44.2388

Garden seat

Chinese export porcelain blue and white barrel-form garden seat with flower pattern.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 171438

Accession Number: 2006.44.2387

Dominoes

Set of ninety-one black wood dominoes, each features a lion carved on one side. All within a rectangular box.

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 171439

Accession Number: 2006.44.2224

Serving Table

Dressing table-like form, on drawr over three, inlaid, cabriole legs on bad feet, reeded columns

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood), veneer, pine (wood)

GUSN: 171441

Accession Number: 1955.269

China Cabinet

William and Mary style burlwood china cabinet with two glass doors and six feet. There are three drawers on the front side.

Maker: unknown

Material: burl veneer

GUSN: 171443

Accession Number: 2006.44.2393

Teddy Bear

Teddy bear with moveable arms and legs. Teddy wears a long sleeve white and red knit sweater.

Date: 1904-1907

Maker: Steiff (Manufacturer)

Material: yarn, mohair

GUSN: 171446

Accession Number: 2006.44.2227

DEACCESSIONED Chair, Lolling

DEACCESSIONED Turned banded front legs, serpentine arms, serpentine crest, modern yellow silk upholstery

Date: 1780-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood), upholstery

GUSN: 171447

Accession Number: 1954.181

Chest of drawers

Late Federal mahogany bow-front chest of drawers with wooden knob handles. Turned legs.

Date: ca. 1820

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood)

GUSN: 171448

Accession Number: 2006.44.2391

Card Table

Circular top, tapered legs; string inlay, crossed branch inlay.

Date: 1790-1805

Maker: Forster, Jacob, 1764-1838 (Maker)

Material: mahogany (wood), inlay (process)

GUSN: 171449

Accession Number: 1954.194

Candlestick

Wrought iron candlestick in the shape of a snake and ornately designed.

Maker: unknown

Material: wrought iron (iron alloy)

GUSN: 171450

Accession Number: 2006.44.2223

Candlestand

Federal birch tripod base candlestand.

Date: ca. 1805

Maker: unknown

Material: birch (wood)

GUSN: 171452

Accession Number: 2006.44.2185

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